Traveling spirit masters
Subtitle: Moroccan Gnawa trance and music in the global marketplace
By: Deborah Kapchan.
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780819568519; 9780819568526
Subjects: Gnawa (Brotherhood); Music, Influence of; Music -- Physiological effect; Trance music -- Morocco; Islamic music -- Morocco
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emplacement; title: Intoxication; title: "A gesture narrowly divides us from chaos" : gesture and word in trance time; title: Working the spirits : the entranced body, the entranced word; title: On the threshold of a dream; title: The chellah gardens; title: Money and the spirit; title: In France with the Gnawa; title: Narratives of epiphany : indexing global links; title: Possessing Gnawa culture : displaying sound, creating history in Dar Gnawa; title: Conclusion: The alchemy of the musical imagination.