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  1. Transforming Vòdún
    musical change and postcolonial healing in Benin's jazz and brass band music
    Published: 2023; ©2023
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial... more

     

    Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians' professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780472075966; 9780472055968
    Series: Musics in motion
    Subjects: Vodou music; Jazz; Brass band music; Music; Vodou; Postcolonialism and music; MUSIC / Ethnomusicology; RELIGION / General; French; Jazz; Jazz; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory; Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus; POL045000; Französisch; Religion & beliefs; Religion und Glaube; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie; Theory of music & musicology; Unterhaltungsmusik, Popmusik
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index

    List of IllustrationsFon-language Pronunciation GuideAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Multiple Temporalities1. History and Healing in VÒdÚn Practice, Power, and Value2. Making la Musique Moderne: Cultural Renaissance in Postcolonial BeninPart II: Transforming VÒdÚn3. GangbÉ Brass Band: Producing VÒdÚn, Producing Livelihood4. Eyo nlÉ Brass Band: Transforming the Blues5. Jomion and the Uklos: Hwedo-Jazz and VÒdÚn in the New African DiasporaConclusion: Trauma, Translation, TransformationBibliographyGlossary

  2. Sonic Fictions of America
    Literature and Popular Music in the U.S. 1950–2010
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    Habitually, the “inter” in intermediality is conceived of as the interrelation between neatly distinguishable semiotic systems and projected as intercompositional agenda. While there are benefits of such a research design it fails to fully fathom... more

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    Habitually, the “inter” in intermediality is conceived of as the interrelation between neatly distinguishable semiotic systems and projected as intercompositional agenda. While there are benefits of such a research design it fails to fully fathom both pop music and its potential ties to the literary text. Such relations can better be grasped by including the logic of literature as social system and the mediality of communication – in fiction as well as in pop music. ‘Sonic Fictions of America’ defines pop music as medial cluster strongly informed by the indexical effects of recording technologies. How, then, does pop affect literature? More often than not, literature has shown a surprising capacity to immunize itself against the “threat” of the popular, turning to familiar forms and styles to evoke pop phenomena. Discussing a rich array of prose texts from Ralph Ellison to Bret Easton Ellis, this study delineates a rather slow shift towards the end of these self-immunizing tendencies.

     

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  3. Leere
    Eine Kulturgeschichte
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Klostermann, Vittorio, Frankfurt am Main

    Vom Horror vacui, vom Schrecken der Leere, sprach schon das Mittelalter. Und auch in der Gegenwart fürchten wir nichts so sehr wie Leerlauf und Langeweile, leere Gasspeicher und leere Supermarkt-Regale. Andererseits hat die gespenstische Leere, die... more

     

    Vom Horror vacui, vom Schrecken der Leere, sprach schon das Mittelalter. Und auch in der Gegenwart fürchten wir nichts so sehr wie Leerlauf und Langeweile, leere Gasspeicher und leere Supermarkt-Regale. Andererseits hat die gespenstische Leere, die wir aus dem Corona-Lockdown oder von dystopischen Zombie-Filmen kennen, auch etwas Faszinierendes. Für die Atomisten der Antike gab es nur dank der Leere überhaupt Bewegung in der Welt. Von Zen bis Dada, von der Moderne bis zur Pop-Kultur wird die Leere nicht gefürchtet oder geleugnet, sondern gefeiert und bejaht, erforscht und in Szene gesetzt. Dieses Buch erzählt die wechselhafte Geschichte eines ambivalenten Begriffs. Es geht dabei nicht nur um das mächtige Phantasma von der großen, gewaltigen Leere am Anfang und Ende der Welt, sondern auch um die Leere als Spiel- und Zwischenraum: um die Leerstellen unserer Selbst- und Weltbilder, um eine gelockerte Kultur der Pausen und Lücken. Denn die Löcher sind bekanntlich die Hauptsache an einem Sieb.Already the Middle Ages knew of horror vacui, the horror of emptiness. And as for us today, there is still nothing we fear more than idleness and boredom, empty gas tanks and empty supermarket shelves. On the other hand, the ghostly emptiness we experienced during the coronavirus lockdown or in dystopian zombie films also has something fascinating about it. For the atomists of antiquity, it was only thanks to the void that there was any movement in the world at all. From Zen to Dada, from modernism to pop culture, emptiness is not feared or denied, but celebrated and affirmed, explored and staged. This book tells the ever-changing story of an ambivalent concept. It is not only about the powerful phantasm of the great, enormous void at the beginning and end of the world, but also about the void as a space of play and in-between: about the empty spaces of our self-images and world views, about a loosened culture of pauses and gaps. Because, as we all know, the holes are what essentially makes a sieve

     

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