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oapen-20.500.12657-640412023-07-21T02:45:47Z Transforming Vòdún Politz, Sarah 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 bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AV Music::AVA Theory of music & musicology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs 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 fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present. 2023-07-20T12:40:40Z 2023-07-20T12:40:40Z 2023 book 9780472075966 9780472055968 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64041 eng Musics in Motion application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780472903283.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12221588 10.3998/mpub.12221588 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 9780472075966 9780472055968 256 open access
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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 fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.
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