Recollecting from the past : musical practice and spirit possession on the east coast of Madagascar / Ron Emoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emoff, Ron.

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Madagascar--Toamasina (Province)--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)--Toamasina (Province)--Music.

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people).

Antandroy (Malagasy people)--Toamasina (Province)--Music.

Antandroy (Malagasy people).

Betsimisaraka (Malagasy people)--Toamasina (Province)--Rites and ceremonies.

Antandroy (Malagasy people)--Toamasina (Province)--Rites and ceremonies.

Spirit possession--Madagascar--Toamasina (Province).

Spirit possession.

Ancestor worship.

Rites and ceremonies.

Madagascar--Toamasina (Province).

Ancestor worship--Madagascar--Toamasina (Province).

Toamasina (Madagascar : Province)--Religious life and customs.

Toamasina (Madagascar : Province).

Genre:

Music.

Physical Description:

xvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar.

Contents:

Some background on Tamatave

Spirit practices on the East coast

Maresaka

Material media of maresaka : the value in things

Recollecting

Power, resistance?, valses

Clinton, Bush, and Hussein in Tamatave

Style as iconicity of aesthetics

Discourse on illness, healing, and abnormality

Imagining Antandroy in Tamatave-ville

Retour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index.

ISBN:

0819564990

0819565008

OCLC:

47922731