Ambient Sufism

Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form

Richard C. Jankowsky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-72347-1 (ISBN)

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Ambient Sufism is a study of the intertwined musical lives of several ritual communities in Tunisia that invoke the healing powers of long-deceased Muslim saints through music-driven trance rituals. Richard C. Jankowsky illuminates the virtually undocumented role of women and minorities in shaping the ritual musical landscape of the region, with case studies on men’s and women’s Sufi orders, Jewish and black Tunisian healing musical troupes, and the popular music of hard-drinking laborers, as well as the cohorts involved in mass-mediated staged spectacles of ritual that continue to inject ritual sounds into the public sphere. He uses the term “ambient Sufism” to illuminate these adjacent ritual practices, each serving as a musical, social, and devotional-therapeutic niche while contributing to a larger, shared ecology of practices surrounding and invoking the figures of saints. And he argues that ritual musical form—that is, the large-scale structuring of ritual through musical organization—has agency; that is, form is revealing and constitutive of experience and encourages particular subjectivities. Ambient Sufism promises many useful ideas for ethnomusicology, anthropology, Islamic and religious studies, and North African studies.

Richard C. Jankowsky is associate professor of music at Tufts University. He is the author of Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

List of Illustrations

List of Website Figures and Audio, Video, and Musical Examples

Notes on Transliteration, Musical Notation, and Companion Website

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Ambient Sufism

2 Ritual Reflexivity: Musicality, Sufi Pedigrees, and the Masters of “Intoxication”

3 Ritual Hospitality: Women Sufis and the Musical Ethics of Accommodation

4 Ritual Alterity: The Musical Management of Sub-Saharan Otherness

5 Ritual Remnants: Legacies of Jewish-Muslim Ritual Musical Convergences

6 Ritual as Resource: Set-List Modularity and the Cultural Politics of Staging Sufi Music

7 Conclusion: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
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Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Zusatzinfo	9 halftones, 20 musical examples, 9 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
ISBN-10	0-226-72347-X / 022672347X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-72347-1 / 9780226723471
Zustand	Neuware