Transforming V?d?n: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Sarah PolitzSeries:Musics in MotionPublish date:2023-09-18Pages:256
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Michigan PressISBN-13:9780472055968ISBN-10:472055968UPC:9780472055968Book Category:Music, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ethnomusicology, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCGTJHGE69
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Michigan PressISBN-13:9780472055968ISBN-10:472055968UPC:9780472055968Book Category:Music, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ethnomusicology, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:African StudiesSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCGTJHGE69
Sarah Politz is Assistant Professor of Music at The City College of New York.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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