Transforming Vodun : Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music
by
Sarah Politz
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
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
Ksh 11,200.00
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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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