Name: Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam (en Inglés)
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Author: Barley Norton
ISBN: 9780252033995

portada Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Illinois Press

Autor

Barley Norton

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

025203399X

ISBN13

9780252033995

N° edición

Categorías

Teoría de la música

Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam (en Inglés)

Barley Norton (Autor) · University Of Illinois Press · Tapa Dura

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Songs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indigenous spirits, musicians perform an elaborate sequence of songs--a "songscape"--for possessed mediums who carry out ritual actions, distribute blessed gifts to disciples, and dance to the music's infectious rhythms. Condemned by French authorities in the colonial period and prohibited by the Vietnamese Communist Party in the late 1950s, mediumship practices have undergone a strong resurgence since the early 1990s, and they are now being drawn upon to promote national identity and cultural heritage through folklorized performances of rituals on the national and international stage. By tracing the historical trajectory of traditional music and religion since the early twentieth century, this groundbreaking study offers an intriguing account of the political transformation and modernization of cultural practices over a period of dramatic and often turbulent transition. An accompanying DVD contains numerous video and music extracts that illustrate the fascinating ways in which music evokes the embodied presence of spirits and their gender and ethnic identities.