Transforming Vòdún

Author : Sarah Politz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472903283

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Transforming Vòdún by Sarah Politz Pdf

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.

Author : Ross Heaven
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594776649

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Vodou Shaman by Ross Heaven Pdf

Goes beyond the stereotypes to restore Vodou to its proper place as a powerful shamanic tradition • Provides practical exercises and techniques from the Vodou tradition that can be used as safe and effective means of spiritual healing and personal transformation • Shows how to remove evil spirits and negative energies sent by others • Written by a fully initiated Houngan (Vodou shaman) Providing practical exercises drawn from all aspects and stages of the Vodou tradition, Vodou Shaman shows readers how to contact the spirit world and communicate with the loa (the angel-like inhabitants of the Other World), the ghede (the spirits of the ancestors), and djabs (nature spirits for healing purposes). The author examines soul journeying and warrior-path work in the Vodou tradition and looks at the psychological principles that make them effective. The book also includes exercises to protect the spiritual self by empowering the soul, with techniques of soul retrieval, removing evil spirits and negative energies, overcoming curses, and using the powers of herbs and magical baths.

Author : Peter Capuano
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472052844

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Changing Hands by Peter Capuano Pdf

A new imagining of human hands as physical objects and literal representations in Victorian fiction

Author : Kenaz Filan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594779954

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The Haitian Vodou Handbook by Kenaz Filan Pdf

A working guide to the proper methods of interacting with the full Vodou pantheon • Includes the myths, cultural heritage, and ancestral lineage of the lwa and how to honor and serve them • Provides an introduction and guide that is especially useful for the solitary practitioner • Discusses the relationship between Vodou, Haitian culture, and Catholicism In The Haitian Vodou Handbook, Kenaz Filan, an initiate of the Société la Belle Venus, presents a working guide to the proper methods of interacting with the full Vodou pantheon, explaining how to build respectful relationships with the lwa, the spirits honored in Haitian Vodou, and how to transform the fear that often surrounds the Vodou religion. Until recently, the Haitian practice of Vodou was often identified with devil worship, dark curses, and superstition. Some saw the saint images and the Catholic influences and wrote Vodou off as a “Christian aberration.” Others were appalled by the animal sacrifices and the fact that the Houngans and Mambos charge money for their services. Those who sought Vodou because they believed it could harness “evil” forces were disappointed when their efforts to gain fame, fortune, or romance failed and so abandoned their “voodoo fetishes.” Those who managed to get the attention of the lwa, often received cosmic retaliation for treating the spirits as attack dogs or genies, which only further cemented Vodou’s stereotype as “dangerous.” Filan offers extensive background information on the featured lwa, including their mythology and ancestral lineage, as well as specific instructions on how to honor and interact fruitfully with those that make themselves accessible. This advice will be especially useful for the solitary practitioner who doesn’t have the personal guidance of a societé available. Filan emphasizes the importance of having a quickened mind that can read the lwa’s desires intuitively in order to avoid establishing dogma-based relationships. This working guide to successful interaction with the full Vodou pantheon also presents the role of Vodou in Haitian culture and explores the symbiotic relationship Vodou has maintained with Catholicism.

Author : Thomas R. Gottschang,Diana Lary
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472038220

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Swallows and Settlers by Thomas R. Gottschang,Diana Lary Pdf

Between the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of China's three northeastern provinces, the area known as Manchuria. This was the greatest population movement in modern Chinese history and ranks among the largest migrations in the world. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration. Drawing methods from their respective fields of economics and history, the coauthors focus on both the broad quantitative outlines of the movement and on the decisions and experiences of individual migrants and their families. In readable narrative prose, the book lays out the historical relationship between North China and the Northeast (Manchuria) and concludes with an examination of ongoing population movement between these regions since the founding of the People's Republic in 1949.

Author : Craig Werner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0472031473

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A Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner Pdf

The new edition of the groundbreaking chronicle of forty years of black music in America

Author : Thomas Turino
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226816982

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Music as Social Life by Thomas Turino Pdf

In 'Music as Social Life', Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the centre of our most profound personal and social experiences.

Author : Benjamin Hebblethwaite,Joanne Bartley
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439906026

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Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English by Benjamin Hebblethwaite,Joanne Bartley Pdf

Vodou songs constitute the living memory of Haitian Vodou communities, and song texts are key elements to understanding Haitian culture. Vodou songs form a profound religious and cultural heritage that traverses the past and refreshes the present. Offering a one-of-a-kind research tool on Vodou and its cultural roots in Haiti and pre-Haitian regions, Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English provides a substantial selection of hard to find or unpublished sacred Vodou songs in a side-by-side bilingual format. Esteemed scholar Benjamin Hebblethwaite introduces the language, mythology, philosophy, origins, and culture of Vodou through several chapters of source songs plus separate analytical chapters. He guides readers through songs, chants, poems, magical formulae, invocations, prayers, historical texts and interviews, as well as Haitian Creole grammar and original sacred literature. An in-depth dictionary of key Vodou terms and concepts is also provided. This corpus of songs and the research about them provide a crucial understanding of the meaning of Vodou religion, language, and culture.

Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802157829

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The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos island. Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of thirty years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children. Soon, a boat crosses bringing Sumaiya, a fiercely resolute Syrian matriarch with terminal liver cancer. Determined to protect her children and husband at all costs, Sumaiya refuses to alert her family to her diagnosis. Bonded together by Sumaiya's secret, a deep connection sparks between the two women, and as Mina prepares a course of treatment with the limited resources on hand, she confronts the circumstances of the migrants' displacement, as well as her own constraints in helping them. Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Modern Magnetism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick James,Mariano E Bertucci,Jarrod Hayes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472037155

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Constructivism Reconsidered by Patrick James,Mariano E Bertucci,Jarrod Hayes Pdf

In international relations (IR), the theory of constructivism argues that the complicated web of international relations is not the result of basic human nature or some other unchangeable aspect but has been built up over time and through shared assumptions. Constructivism Reconsidered synthesizes the nature of and debates on constructivism in international relations, providing a systematic assessment of the constructivist research program in IR to answer specific questions: What extent of (dis)agreement exists with regard to the meaning of constructivism? To what extent is constructivism successful as an alternative approach to rationalism in explaining and understanding international affairs? Constructivism Reconsidered explores constructivism’s theoretical, empirical, and methodological strengths and weaknesses, and debates what these say about its past, present, and future to reach a better understanding of IR in general and how constructivism informs IR in particular.

Author : Francesca T. Royster
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780472051793

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Sounding Like a No-No by Francesca T. Royster Pdf

Sounding Like a No-No traces a rebellious spirit in post–civil rights black music by focusing on a range of offbeat, eccentric, queer, or slippery performances by leading musicians influenced by the cultural changes brought about by the civil rights, black nationalist, feminist, and LGBTQ movements, who through reinvention created a repertoire of performances that have left a lasting mark on popular music. The book's innovative readings of performers including Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder, Eartha Kitt, and Meshell Ndegeocello demonstrate how embodied sound and performance became a means for creativity, transgression, and social critique, a way to reclaim imaginative and corporeal freedom from the social death of slavery and its legacy of racism, to engender new sexualities and desires, to escape the sometimes constrictive codes of respectability and uplift from within the black community, and to make space for new futures for their listeners. The book's perspective on music as a form of black corporeality and identity, creativity, and political engagement will appeal to those in African American studies, popular music studies, queer theory, and black performance studies; general readers will welcome its engaging, accessible, and sometimes playful writing style, including elements of memoir.

Author : Craig Werner
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307420879

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Higher Ground by Craig Werner Pdf

An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched. Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In midcentury America it was soul music—particularly the dazzling stream of recordings made by these three stars—that helped bring the gospel vision of the black church into the mainstream, energizing the era’s social movements and defining a new American gospel where the sacred and the secular met. What made this gospel all the more amazing was that its most influential articulators were the sons and daughters of sharecroppers, storefront preachers, and single parents in the projects, whose genius gave voice to a new vision of American possibility. Higher Ground seamlessly weaves the specific and intensely personal narratives of Stevie, Aretha, and Curtis’s lives into the historical fabric of their times. The three shared many similarities: They were all children of the great migration and of the black church. But Werner goes further and ties them together with a provocative thesis about American history and culture that compels us to reconsider both the music and the times. And aside from the personalities and the history, he writes beautifully about music itself, the nuts and bolts of its creation and performance, in a way that brings a new awareness and understanding to the most familiar music, forcing you to listen to songs you've heard a thousand times with fresh ears. In Higher Ground, Werner illuminates the lives of three unparalleled American artists, reminding us why their music mattered then and still resonates with us today.

Author : Craig Hansen Werner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252066413

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Playing the Changes by Craig Hansen Werner Pdf

A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.

Author : Nadya Zimmerman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472035724

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Counterculture Kaleidoscope by Nadya Zimmerman Pdf

A bold reconsideration of the meaning of 1960s San Francisco counterculture