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Signs of the spirit : music and the experience of meaning in Ndau ceremonial life / Tony Perman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perman, Tony, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ndau (African people)--Music--History and criticism.
- Ndau (African people).
- Ndau (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Rites and ceremonies--Zimbabwe.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Dance--Zimbabwe.
- Dance.
- Drum--Performance--Zimbabwe.
- Drum.
- Music, Influence of--Zimbabwe.
- Music, Influence of.
- Spirit possession--Zimbabwe.
- Spirit possession.
- Spiritualism--Zimbabwe.
- Spiritualism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This text is an ethnography of spirit possession ceremonies and accompanying musical practices in the rural Ndau-speaking communities surrounding Chipinge, Zimbabwe. Collectively called madhlozi, these spirits are the 'outsider spirits' of distant social encounters that have shaped Ndau identity and history. The purpose of this book is to explain how musicking during ceremonial life in rural Ndau communities in Zimbabwe is meaningfully experienced during a single spirit possession ceremony. It investigates the immediacy of musical experience and the ways in which the ongoing present of ceremonial performance becomes emotional and socially salient.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Music, Experience, Meaning.
- Part I. Foundations.
- Introduction: Finding Madhlozi in Chipinge
- Moving Signs: The Experience of Affective Semiosis
- Part II. Ceremony at Horus Farm
- Late Afternoon: Madzviti and the Foundation of Interpretation
- Evening: Zvipunha, Signs, and Transformative Experience
- Overnight: Mhongo and the Effects of Performance
- Early Morning: Zvaayungu and the Shaping of Ndau Modernity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780252052132
- 0252052137
- OCLC:
- 1131865796
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