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Signs of the Spirit - Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life (Paperback)
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Signs of the Spirit - Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life (Paperback)
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In 2005, Tony Perman attended a ceremony alongside the living and
the dead. His visit to a Zimbabwe farm brought him into contact
with the madhlozi, outsider spirits that Ndau people rely upon for
guidance, protection, and their collective prosperity. Perman's
encounters with the spirits, the mediums who bring them back, and
the accompanying rituals form the heart of his ethnographic account
of how the Ndau experience ceremonial musicking. As Perman
witnessed other ceremonies, he discovered that music and dancing
shape the emotional lives of Ndau individuals by inviting them to
experience life's milestones or cope with its misfortunes as a
group. Signs of the Spirit explores the historical, spiritual, and
social roots of ceremonial action and details how that action
influences the Ndau's collective approach to their future. The
result is a vivid ethnomusicological journey that delves into the
immediacy of musical experience and the forces that transform
ceremonial performance into emotions and community.
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