Kusamira Music in Uganda : Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoesing, Peter J., 1981-

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music therapy--Uganda.

Music therapy.

Music, Influence of--Uganda.

Music, Influence of.

Spiritual healing--Uganda.

Spiritual healing.

Channeling (Spiritualism)--Uganda.

Channeling (Spiritualism).

Uganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Notes on Languages and Orthography

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Situating Kusamira and Nswezi as Repertories of Well-Being

Repertories of Well-Being

Geographic and Fieldwork Context

Pathways to the Healer's Shrine

The Music: Instrumentation, Idioms, and Heterophony

Broader Impacts of Kusamira for Ethnographic Theory

From Divination to Diagnosis to Intervention

The Path Ahead

1. Ritual Work in Twenty-First-Century Uganda: From Folk Well-Being to Ex-Colonial Professionalization

From (In)Visibility to Audibility: Traditional Healers in the Ugandan Ex-Colony

Struggles for Control and Productive Simultaneities in the Ugandan Ex-Colony

The Social Basis of Ugandan Health, Past and Present

"Living Positively": Indigenous Music and Medicine in the Time of AIDS

New Struggles for Control in Uganda

Ritual Musicking as Ritual Work

Conclusion

2. Ecologies of Well-Being: Hearing the World through Ritual Repertories

Invoking the Twins

Ssewasswa: Performing Idioms of Risk and Abundance

Community and Ecology across Two Regions

Mayembe: Binding Spiritual Work and Ecology into Concentrated Space

Hunting, Gathering, and Joining: Ddungu the Hunter

Pantheons and Litanies, Fauna and Flora: Repertories of Practice

From Animals Back to Plants Again

Rivers and Other Waters, Trees and Other Plants

3. Possessing Sound Medicine: Gathering Resources, Strengthening Networks, Composing Knowledge

Sanctuaries of Tradition

Spirit Mediums: Flexible Persons, Conduits to Networks, and Bearers of Knowledge

Okwaza: Searching for Spirits

Mayembe: The Musical Socialization of Spiritual Power

Gimme Shelter: Meeting Spirits' Demands for Places to Call Their Own

The Ritual Seriousness of Play

Ritual Innovation: High-Tech(ne) Hymnody

4. Sacrifice and Song: Ritual Exchange and the Production of Relational Ideals

The Cultural Logic of Sacrifice: Singing and Praying, Blessing and Feeding

Hunting Productive Power: Sacrifice, Sexuality, and the Contours of Liminality

Omukolo gw'Emisambwa: The Rite of the Misambwa

Omukolo gwa Kiwanuka: The Rite of Kiwanuka

Rituals of New Life, Open Doors, and Fertility

Omukolo gwa Sserugulamilyango: The Ritual of the One Who Opens Doorways

Omukolo gw'Abakyala: Rite of the Women

Interlude: Kalalu (Little Wild One)

Omukolo gw'Amayembe: The Rite of the Mayembe (Working Spirits)

A Contrasting Example of Sacrifice: Irondo

5. From Tea and Coffee Berries to Beer and Meat: Sound, Hospitality, and Feasting in Repertories of Well-Being

Coffee Berries, Groundnuts, and Banana Beer

Cleansing and Gratitude

Dancing with the Spirits: Well-Being beyond Therapeutics

Conclusion

Notes:

Conclusion: Listening to Kusamira's Lessons on Well-Being Now.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Hoesing, Peter J. Kusamira Music in Uganda

ISBN:

9780252052729

0252052722

Publisher Number:

99988746169

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