Transforming Vodun : Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

Name: Transforming Vodun
Brand: The University of Michigan Press
SKU: 9780472075966
Price: 11200 KES
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ISBN: 9780472075966

by Sarah Politz

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Format Hardback

Book Series Musics in Motion

ISBN-10 0472075969

ISBN-13 9780472075966

Publisher The University of Michigan Press

Imprint The University of Michigan Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 18th, 2023

Print length 256 Pages

Product Classification: Theory of music & musicology Jazz National liberation & independence, post-colonialism Religion & beliefs Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

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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 Benins 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.

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