Efficacy of Sound
Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà
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Efficacy of Sound
Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà
272 pages | 28 halftones, 4 line drawings | 6 x 9
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Music: Ethnomusicology
Table of Contents
List of Examples and Transcriptions
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Global Ifá Missionary: Revisionism and Nigerian-Style Ifá-Òrìṣà in Cuba
Chapter Two: Yorùbá Geographies and the Efficacy of the Far: The Dùndún “Talking Drums” and Transatlantic Institutions in Havana
Chapter Three: Revolutionary Feminism and Gendered Translocality: Women and Consecrated Batá
Chapter Four: Ìyánífá: Gendered Polarity and “Speaking Ifá”
Chapter Five: The Efficacy of Pleasure and the Utility of the Close: Regionalism and All-Male Egúngún Masquerade
Epilogue: The “Leopards” of Nigerian-Style Ifá-Òrìṣà: Visions from Cuba to Yorùbáland
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Global Ifá Missionary: Revisionism and Nigerian-Style Ifá-Òrìṣà in Cuba
Chapter Two: Yorùbá Geographies and the Efficacy of the Far: The Dùndún “Talking Drums” and Transatlantic Institutions in Havana
Chapter Three: Revolutionary Feminism and Gendered Translocality: Women and Consecrated Batá
Chapter Four: Ìyánífá: Gendered Polarity and “Speaking Ifá”
Chapter Five: The Efficacy of Pleasure and the Utility of the Close: Regionalism and All-Male Egúngún Masquerade
Epilogue: The “Leopards” of Nigerian-Style Ifá-Òrìṣà: Visions from Cuba to Yorùbáland
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
References
Index