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Remains of ritual : northern gods in a southern land / Steven M. Friedson

Friedson, Steven M.,i1948- [Verfasser]

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 254 pages, [2] pages of plates) : Illustrations (some color), music

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index

978-0-226-26506-3 ; 0-226-26506-4 ; 978-0-226-26504-9

LS 46724

 

Ewe, Volk  Religion  Musik 

"Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson's second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality--in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson's careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society"--Provided by publisher.