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Traveling spirit masters : Moroccan Gnawa trance and music in the global marketplace / Deborah Kapchan.

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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3920 .K15 2007
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kapchan, Deborah A. (Deborah Anne)
Series:
Music/culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Music, Influence of.
Music--Physiological effect.
Music.
Trance music--Morocco.
Trance music.
Islamic music--Morocco.
Islamic music.
Gnawa (Brotherhood).
Morocco.
Physical Description:
xiii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-313) and index.
ISBN:
9780819568519
0819568511
9780819568526
081956852X
OCLC:
123539484

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