Kusamira Music in Uganda - Spirit Mediumship and Ritual Healing (Paperback)

A performance culture of illness and wellness In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickness and maintain well-being. Peter J. Hoesing blends ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis to examine how kusamira and nswezi performance socializes dynamic processes of illness, wellness, and health. People participate in these traditions for reasons that range from preserving ideas to generating strategies that allow them to navigate changing circumstances. Indeed, the performance of kusamira and nswezi reproduces ideas that remain relevant for succeeding generations. Hoesing shows the potential of this social reproduction of well-being to shape development in a region where over 80 percent of the population relies on traditional healers for primary health care.Comprehensive and vivid with eyewitness detail, Kusamira Music in Uganda offers insight into important healing traditions and the overlaps between expressive culture and healing practices, the human and other-than-human, and Uganda's past and future.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2021
Authors:	Peter J. Hoesing
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	201
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08581-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-252-08581-7
Barcode:	9780252085819

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