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Stambeli (Paperback, New)
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In "Stambeli", Richard C. Jankowsky presents a vivid ethnographic
account of the healing trance music created by the descendants of
sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Stambeli music calls upon an elaborate
pantheon of sub-Saharan spirits and North African Muslim saints to
heal humans through ritualized trance. Based on nearly two years of
participation in the musical, ritual, and social worlds of stambeli
musicians, Jankowsky's study explores the way the music evokes the
cross-cultural, migratory past of its originators and their
encounters with the Arab-Islamic world in which they found
themselves. "Stambeli", Jankowsky avers, is thoroughly marked by a
sense of otherness - the healing spirits, the founding musicians,
and the instruments mostly come from outside Tunisia - which
creates a unique space for profoundly meaningful interactions
between sub-Saharan and North African people, beliefs, histories,
and aesthetics. Part ethnography, part history of the complex
relationship between Tunisia's Arab and sub-Saharan populations,
"Stambeli" is compulsively readable and will be welcomed by
scholars and students of ethnomusicology, anthropology, African
studies, and religion.
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