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University of Illinois Press Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life

Name: Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life
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Product Description 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. Review "A thoughtful application of Peircean semiotics to the musical rendering of spirit mediumship. With his ethnographic finesse and attentive listening, Tony Perman leads us through a spirit possession ceremony. We meet real people and real ancestral spirits in actual moments of feelingful performance. He shows us how relations with departed spirits vitalize social worlds that are made by hard work, imbued with violent history, ensnared in bleak politics, and animated by hope and artistry. A humanizing book about a densely social life world that encompasses the dead."--Louise Meintjes, author of Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid "Tony Perman's highly original contribution to ethnomusicology and anthropology extends beyond his attention to the Ndau of the Chipinge region of southeastern Zimbabwe--largely ignored by nationalist policies as well in the scholarly literature. Based in a deep understanding of Ndau history, spirituality, musicking, and a profound analysis of a single spirit possession ceremony, Perman replaces standard cultural relativistic explanations of an alternative belief system with a portrayal of what is simply true and real for Ndau ceremonial participants. This alone marks an important theoretical advance. But perhaps of the greatest benefit for anyone in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, Signs of the Spirit provides the most thorough and coherent general theory of music and emotion to date. Perman's theory, in turn, is based on a highly specified explanation of the ways that musical performance and emotion are meaningful and, especially, the ways iconic and symbolic generality are transformed into an unqualified experience of the indexical here-and-now."--Thomas Turino, author of Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation About the Author Tony Perman is an assistant professor of music at Grinnell College.

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Brand: University of Illinois Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0252043251
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Folk Music
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 June 2020
Listed Since: 01 October 2019

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