Stambeli by Richard C Jankowsky

Stambeli by Richard C Jankowsky

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.

Richard C. Jankowsky is assistant professor of music at Tufts University.

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ISBN 13	9780226392196
ISBN 10	0226392198
Title	Stambeli
Author	Richard C Jankowsky
Series	Chicago Studies In Ethnomusicology Cse
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2010-12-15
Number of pages	256
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