| Description |
viii, 269 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Ndau (African people) -- Music -- History and criticism.
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Ndau (African people) |
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Music. |
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Ndau (African people) -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Rites and ceremonies -- Zimbabwe.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Zimbabwe. |
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Dance -- Zimbabwe.
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Dance. |
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Drum -- Performance -- Zimbabwe.
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Drum -- Performance. |
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Music, Influence of -- Zimbabwe.
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Music, Influence of. |
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Spirit possession -- Zimbabwe.
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Spirit possession. |
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Spiritualism -- Zimbabwe.
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Spiritualism. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Perman, Tony, 1973- Signs of the spirit Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020. 9780252052132 (DLC) 2019052273 |
| ISBN |
9780252043253 hardcover |
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0252043251 hardcover |
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9780252085178 paperback |
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0252085175 paperback |
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9780252052132 electronic book |
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