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Recollecting from the Past (Paperback)
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Recollecting from the Past (Paperback)
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The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music,
Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and
performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka
pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of
remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life, and Malagasy
concepts of self and community.
Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which
Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively
re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial
phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness.
Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue
and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these
performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into
the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and
so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which
Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking
study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology,
ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial
and performance studies.
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