Dancing at the thresholds : music, trance, and feeling in Algerian dīwān of Sīdīl Bilāl / Tamara Dee Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Tamara Dee, Author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost

Series:

Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecstatic dance--Algeria--History.

Ecstatic dance.

Religious dance--Algeria--History.

Religious dance.

Sufism--Rituals.

Sufism.

Sufi music--Algeria.

Sufi music.

Black people--Algeria--Social life and customs.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2026.

Contents:

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List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration

Prelude

Introduction

PART 1. Rupture and Emergence: Trans-Saharan Roots, Routes, and Afro-Maghribi Emplacement

1. Caravans, Sufis, and Maghribi Islam

2. The Emergence of Dīwān and Its Polyvalent Pantheon

3. Sounding and Embodying the Pantheon

PART 2. Affective Ecologies of Ritual: Atmosphere, Affective Labor, and Bodily Ignition

4. The Magnitude of Atmosphere

5. Launching and Warming the Ritual Ecology

6. (Inter-)Corporeality, Trance, and Affective Ignition

PART 3. "Modernizing" Dīwān: Imbricated Milieux and New Economies of Transmission

7. New Economies of Transmission

8. The National Dīwān Festival

Epilogue: Trajectories of Dīwān

Appendices

Glossary

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Online version Turner, Tamara Dee Dancing at the thresholds

ISBN:

9780253075901 (electronic bk.)

0253075904 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40033198727

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