Traveling spirit masters : Moroccan Gnawa trance and music in the global marketplace /

A group of ritual musicians and former slaves brought from sub-Saharan Africa to Morocco, the Gnawa heal those they believe to be possessed, using incense, music, and trance. This book on Gnawa music and its global reach is a demonstration of how and why trance - and indeed all sacred music - is fas...

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Main Author: Kapchan, Deborah A. (Deborah Anne) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]
Series:Music/culture.
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505 0 |a Emplacement -- Intoxication -- "A gesture narrowly divides us from chaos" : gesture and word in trance time -- Working the spirits : the entranced body, the entranced word -- On the threshold of a dream -- The chellah gardens -- Money and the spirit -- In France with the Gnawa -- Narratives of epiphany : indexing global links -- Possessing Gnawa culture : displaying sound, creating history in Dar Gnawa -- Conclusion: The alchemy of the musical imagination. 
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