Transforming Vḍn͠ Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By:

Politz, Sarah [auth]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Publication details: University of Michigan Press 2023Description: 1 electronic resource (256 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780472055968
9780472075966
mpub.12221588

Subject(s):

Music
Religion & beliefs
Theory of music & musicology
Benin, vodun, African jazz, Gangbe Brass Band, Eyo'nle Brass Band, Jomion and the Uklos, Dahomey, religion, spirituality, economics, entrepreneurship, liveness, livelihood, transformation, translation, ethnomusicology, postcolonial trauma, healing, musical change, temporality, migration, popular music, value, ethnography

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Summary: Transforming Vḍn͠ examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vḍn͠ 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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Transforming Vḍn͠ examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vḍn͠ 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.