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

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

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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...

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Main Author: Politz, Sarah (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2023
Series:Musics in Motion
Subjects:
Music
Theory of music & musicology
Religion & beliefs
Benin, vodun, African jazz, Gangbe Brass Band, Eyo'nle Brass Band, Jomion and the Uklos, Dahomey, religion, spirituality, economics, entrepreneurship, liveness, livelihood, transformation, translation, ethnomusicology, postcolonial trauma, healing, musical change, temporality, migration, popular music, value, ethnography
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