Traveling spirit masters : Moroccan Gnawa trance and music in the global marketplace
Deborah A. Kapchan (Author)
A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. But their practice is hardly of only local interest: the Gnawa have long participated in the world music market through collaborations with African-American jazz musicians and French recording artists. In this first book in English on Gnawa music and its global reach, the author explores how these collaborations transfigure racial and musical identities on both sides of the Atlantic. She also addresses how aesthetic styles associated with the sacred come to inhabit non-sacred contexts, and what new amalgams they produce. Her narrative details the fascinating intrinsic properties of trance, including details of enactment, the role of gesture and the body, and the use of the senses, and how they both construct authentic Gnawa identity and reconstruct historically determined relations of power. This book is a captivating and elucidating demonstration of how and why trance--and indeed all sacred music--is fast becoming a transnational sensation
Print Book, English, 2007
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780819568519, 9780819568526, 0819568511, 081956852X
123539484
Emplacement
Intoxication
"A gesture narrowly divides us from chaos" : gesture and word in trance time
Working the spirits : the entranced body, the entranced word
On the threshold of a dream
The chellah gardens
Money and the spirit
In France with the Gnawa
Narratives of epiphany : indexing global links
Possessing Gnawa culture : displaying sound, creating history in Dar Gnawa
Conclusion: The alchemy of the musical imagination
נושא ישן: Islamic music - history and criticism
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