Performing ecstasies
Subtitle: music, dance, and ritual in the Mediterranean
By: edited by Luisa Del Giudice and Nancy van Deusen.
Contributors: Van Deusen, Nancy; Del Giudice, Luisa.; Italian Oral History Institute.
Series: Claremont cultural studies; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen ; Bd. 62/7 = -- Musicological studies ; v. 62/7; Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (Institute of Mediaeval Music) -- Bd. 62/7.
Publisher: Institute of Mediaeval Music
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Folk music -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Rites and ceremonies -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Ecstatic dance -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Healing -- Folklore -- Congresses; Tarantism -- Mediterranean Region -- Congresses; Musique folklorique -- Méditerranée, Région de la -- Histoire et critique; Rites et cérémonies -- Méditerranée, Région de la; Danse extatique -- Méditerranée, Région de la; Guérison -- Folklore; Tarentisme -- Méditerranée, Région de la
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Music, dance, and ritual in the Mediterranean
Notes: Papers presented at the conference and festival "Performing ecstasies : music, dance and ritual in the Mediterranean," held in October 2000, in Los Angeles, California; the event was organized by the Italian Oral History Institute.  Cf. p. xv and xxv.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Performed ecstasies and trance in Antiquity: The protean performer : mimesis and identity in late Antique discussions of the theater / Ruth Webb; title: Describing ecstasy on the North African Rim in late Antiquity / Nancy van Deusen; title: Chapter 2. Trance and healing: Ecstasis in healing : practices in Southern Italy and Greece from Antiquity to the present / Andromache Karanika; title: Dancing towards well-being: reflections on the Pizzica in contemporary Salento, Italy / Karen Lüdtke; title: Reconstructing the sense of presence : tarantula, Arlìa, and dance / Placida Staro; title: Chapter 3. Africa and African musical crossroads: The sounds of religion : a Mawlid of Kenadsa / Abderrahmane Moussaoui; title: The music of the Gnawa of Morocco : a journey with the other into the elsewhere / Antonio Baldassarre; title: Development and hypnotic performance of an African lamellaphone in the Salentine area : the Fina case study / Roberto Catalano; title: Chapter 4. On musicians, singers and dancers: "My soul's there already and my heart's on its way": Portuguese women's pilgrimage drum songs / Judith Cohen; title: For Luigi Stifani / Luigi Chiriatti; title: Pizzica tarantata : reflections of a violin player / Roberto Raheli; title: Chapter 5. Italian rituals of healing, devotion and magic: Dance of the Earth / Augusto Ferraiuolo; title: Venturing identity : performing ecstasy in the rite of the Guglia (Basilicata, Italy) / Francesco Marano; title: Devotion, music, and rite in Southern Italy : the Madonna del Pollino Festival / Nicola Scaldaferri; title: Chapter 6. Cultural performance and revival: Imagining the Strega : folklore reclamation and the construction of Italian American witchcraft / Sabina Magliocco; title: García Lorca and the Duende / Maria Cristina Assumma; title: The folk music revival and the culture of Tarantismo in the Salento / Luisa del Giudice.