Transforming Vòdún
Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
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2023
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07596-6 (ISBN)
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-07596-6 (ISBN)
How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions
Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.
Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.
Sarah Politz is Assistant Professor ofMusic at The City College of New York.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Fon-language Pronunciation Guide
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Multiple Temporalities
1. History and Healing in Vòdún Practice, Power, and Value
2. Making la Musique Moderne: Cultural Renaissance in Postcolonial Benin
Part II: Transforming Vòdún
3. Gangbé Brass Band: Producing Vòdún, Producing Livelihood
4. Eyo’nlé Brass Band: Transforming the Blues
5. Jomion and the Uklos: Hwedo-Jazz and Vòdún in the New African Diaspora
Conclusion: Trauma, Translation, Transformation
Bibliography
Glossary
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Musics in Motion |
| Zusatzinfo | 17 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Ann Arbor |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-472-07596-9 / 0472075969 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-472-07596-6 / 9780472075966 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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