Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Orìsà - Couverture rigide

Meadows, Ruthie

 
9780226830223: Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Orìsà
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ISBN 10 : 0226830225 ISBN 13 : 9780226830223
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2023

Synopsis

The first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria.

Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination and deity (òrìṣà/oricha) worship through transatlantic travel and reconnection. In Cuba, where Ifá and Santería emerged as an interrelated, Yorùbá-inspired ritual complex, worshippers are driven to "African traditionalism" by its promise of efficacy: they find Yorùbá approaches more powerful, potent, and efficacious.

In the first book-length study on music and Ifá, Ruthie Meadows draws on extensive, multisited fieldwork in Cuba and Yorùbáland, Nigeria, to examine the controversial "Nigerian-style" ritual movement in Cuban Ifá divination. Meadows uses feminist and queer of color theory along with critical studies of Africanity to excavate the relation between utility and affect within translocal ritual music circulations. Meadows traces how translocal Ifá priestesses (ìyánífá), female batá drummers (bataleras), and priests (babaláwo) harness Yorùbá-centric approaches to ritual music and sound to heighten efficacy, achieve desired ritual outcomes, and reshape the conditions of their lives. Within a contentious religious landscape marked by the idiosyncrasies of revolutionary state policy, Nigerian-style Ifá-Òrìṣà is leveraged to transform femininity and masculinity, state religious policy, and transatlantic ritual authority on the island.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ruthie Meadows is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226830225
ISBN 13 
9780226830223
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780226828954: Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà

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ISBN 10 :  0226828956 ISBN 13 :  9780226828954
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2023
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