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Music, Sṭambālī (Rite), History and criticism, Blacks, Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies, Religious aspects of Music, Spirit possession, Stambali, Other (Philosophy), Field recordings, Music, history and criticism, Music, religious aspects, Music, african, Experience (religion), Black peoplePlaces
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Stambeli: music, trance, and alterity in Tunisia
2010, The University of Chicago Press
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0226392171 9780226392172
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Stambeli: music, trance, and alterity in Tunisia
2010, The University of Chicago Press
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This book is an account of stambeli, the healing trance music developed by sub-Saharan African slaves who were brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth century. In stambeli ritual, sub-Saharan spirits and North African Muslim saints make up a pantheon of unseen beings that heal humans through possession trance. Jankowsky shows that stambeli is marked by a series of "others"--the sprits and the humans they heal; the stambeli musicians, most of whom are of sub-Saharan descent, and the patients, who are note; and stambeli music itself, which is characterized by instruments and elements that are distinctly not Tunisian--which allows the ritual to play a dual role as a site of healing and as a space of social and historical encounter. It is both ethnography and history of the complex relationship between Tunisia's Arab and sub-Saharan populations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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