Kusamira Music in Uganda
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08581-9 (ISBN)
In southern Uganda, ritual healing traditions called kusamira and nswezi rely on music to treat sickness and maintain well-being. Peter J. Hoesing blends ethnomusicological fieldwork with analysis to examine how kusamira and nswezi performance socializes dynamic processes of illness, wellness, and health. People participate in these traditions for reasons that range from preserving ideas to generating strategies that allow them to navigate changing circumstances. Indeed, the performance of kusamira and nswezi reproduces ideas that remain relevant for succeeding generations. Hoesing shows the potential of this social reproduction of well-being to shape development in a region where over 80 percent of the population relies on traditional healers for primary health care. Comprehensive and vivid with eyewitness detail, Kusamira Music in Uganda offers insight into important healing traditions and the overlaps between expressive culture and healing practices, the human and other-than-human, and Uganda's past and future.
Peter J. Hoesing is Director of Sponsored Programs at Dakota State University and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine.
CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Languages and OrthographyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Situating Kusamira and Nswezi as Repertories of Well-Being1. Ritual Work in Twenty-First-Century Uganda: From Folk Well-Being to Ex-Colonial Professionalizati2. Ecologies of Well-Being: Hearing the World through Ritual Repertories3. Possessing Sound Medicine: Gathering Resources, Strengthening Networks, Composing Knowledge4. Sacrifice and Song: Ritual Exchange and the Production of Relational Ideals5. From Tea and Coffee Berries to Beer and Meat: Sound, Hospitality, and Feasting in RepertoriesConclusion: Listening to Kusamira’s Lessons on Well-Being NowNotesBibliographyIndexBack cover
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 black & white photographs, 6 music examples, 1 table |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-08581-7 / 0252085817 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-08581-9 / 9780252085819 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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