Traveling Spirit Masters : Moroccan Gnawa Trance and Music in the Global Marketplace / Deborah Kapchan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapchan, Deborah A. (Deborah Anne), author.

Series:

Music/culture.

Music / Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gnawa (Brotherhood).

Music, Influence of.

Music--Physiological effect.

Music.

Trance music--Morocco--History and criticism.

Trance music.

Sufi music--Morocco--History and criticism.

Sufi music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 pages): illustrations ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]

Summary:

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. This book on Gnawa music and its global reach is a demonstration of how and why trance - and indeed all sacred music - is fast becoming a transnational sensation.

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 and index.

Description based on print version record.

נושא ישן: Islamic music - history and criticism.

ISBN:

9780819501363

0819501360

OCLC:

1395949003

Publisher Number:

heb40274 hdl