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Jeliya at the Crossroads - Learning African Wisdom through an Embodied Practice (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Jeliya at the Crossroads - Learning African Wisdom through an Embodied Practice (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
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This book describes the remarkable culture of jeliya, a musical and
verbal art from the Manding region of West Africa. Using an
embodied practice as her methodology, the author reveals how she
and her music teachers live "in between" local and global cultures.
Her journey spans 20 years of fieldwork presented through personal
and intimate stories, first as a student of the balafon instrument,
then as a patron of the music. Tensions build in both the music and
in social relations that require resolutions, underscoring the
differences between two world views. Through balafon lessons, the
author embodies values such as patience, courage, and generosity,
resulting in a transformative practice that leads her to better
understand her position vis-a-vis that of her jeli teachers.
Meanwhile, jeliya itself, despite having been transmitted from
teacher to student for 800 years, is currently in peril. Jelis cite
modern globalized culture and people like the author herself as
both a source of the problem as well as the potential solution.
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