Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on spelling and transliteration xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I Histories and Geographies of Encounter
8. Chapter one. Encountering the Other People: alterity, possession, ethnography 13
9. Chapter two. Displacement and Emplacement the trans-Saharan slave trade and the emergence of stambēlī 43
10. Chapter three. Black Spirits, White Saints: geographies of encounter in the stambēlī pantheon 68
11. Part II Musical Aesthetics and Ritual Dynamics
12. Chapter four. Voices of Ritual Authority: musicians, instruments, and vocality 95
13. Chapter five. Sounding the Spirits the ritual dynamics of temporality, modality, and density 112
14. Chapter six. Trance, Healing, and the Bodily Experience: from individual affliction to collective appeasement 131
15. Part III Movements and Trajectories
16. Chapter seven. Pilgrimage and Place: local performances, transnational imaginaries 155
17. Chapter eight. Stambēlī on Stage (re)presentations, musical cosmopolitanism, and the public sphere 178
18. Chapter nine. Conclusion: music, trance, and alterity 197
19. Epilogue (with notes on audio examples) 201
20. Notes 205
21. Glossary 217
22. Bibliography 219
23. Index 231