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Signs of the spirit : music and the experience of meaning in Ndau ceremonial life

Title: Signs of the spirit : music and the experience of meaning in Ndau ceremonial life / Tony Perman.
Author: Perman, Tony, 1973-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

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Description

viii, 269 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm

Summary

"In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity. Perman's encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to experience life's milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a group. Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future. The result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform ceremonial performance into emotions and community"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: Music, Experience, Meaning. -- Part I. Foundations. -- Introduction: Finding Madhlozi in Chipinge -- Moving Signs: The Experience of Affective Semiosis -- Part II. Ceremony at Horus Farm -- Late Afternoon: Madzviti and the Foundation of Interpretation -- Evening: Zvipunha, Signs, and Transformative Experience -- Overnight: Mhongo and the Effects of Performance -- Early Morning: Zvaayungu and the Shaping of Ndau Modernity.

Call Number

Sc E 22-40

ISBN

9780252043253
0252043251

LCCN

2019052272

OCLC

1122741611

Author

Perman, Tony, 1973- author.

Title

Signs of the spirit : music and the experience of meaning in Ndau ceremonial life / Tony Perman.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-40

JME 20-228

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