Title: Ritual, rapture and remorse
Description: This is one of the first books in English to explore this fascinating ritual practice and its contemporary resurgence. It uses an interdisciplinary framework based in performance studies to ask wider questions about the experience of the body in performance, and the potential of music and dance to create a sense of personal and collective transformation and efficacy"--Pub. desc.
Subjects: History and criticism, Tarantism, Folk dance music, Folk dancing, Folk dancing, european, Dance, italy, Music, history and criticism, Traditional Medicine, History, Spider Bites, Ceremonial Behavior, Dancing, Psychology, Music, Cultural Characteristics, Ethnology
Places: Salento, Italy