Binding: Paperback
Description: Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long - deceased Muslim saints through music - driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undocumented role of women and minorities in shaping the ritual musical landscape of the region with case studies on men's and women's Sufi orders Jewish and black Tunisian healing musical troupes and the popular music of hard - drinking laborers as well as the cohorts involved in mass - mediated staged spectacles of ritual that continue to inject ritual sounds into the public sphere. He uses the term ambient Sufism to illuminate these adjacent ritual practices each serving as a musical social and devotional - therapeutic niche while contributing to a larger shared ecology of practices surrounding and invoking the figures of saints. And he argues that ritual musical form that is the large - scale structuring of ritual through musical organization has agency; that is form is revealing and constitutive of experience and encourages particular subjectivities. Ambient Sufism promises many useful ideas for ethnomusicology anthropology Islamic and religious studies and North African studies.
Title: Ambient Sufism Ritual Niches And The Social Work Of Musical Form
Author(s): Jankowsky Richard C.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226723471
Pages: 272 Pages, 9 Halftones, 20 Musical Examples, 9 Tables
Publication Date: 2/1/2021
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Category: Miscellaneous Items