Transforming V佖: Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music - Paperback
by Sarah Politz (Author)
Transforming V佖 examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of v佖 and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians' professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.
Sarah Politz is Assistant Professor of Music at The City College of New York.
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