Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-472-05596-8
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Musics in Motion

Transforming VÒdÚn examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vÒdÚn and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Militärmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of IllustrationsFon-language Pronunciation GuideAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Multiple Temporalities1. History and Healing in VÒdÚn Practice, Power, and Value2. Making la Musique Moderne: Cultural Renaissance in Postcolonial BeninPart II: Transforming VÒdÚn3. GangbÉ Brass Band: Producing VÒdÚn, Producing Livelihood4. Eyo’nlÉ Brass Band: Transforming the Blues5. Jomion and the Uklos: Hwedo-Jazz and VÒdÚn in the New African DiasporaConclusion: Trauma, Translation, TransformationBibliographyGlossary