The Gnawa Lions - Christopher Witulski

The Gnawa Lions (eBook)

Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music
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2018
196 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03676-6 (ISBN)
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1. Gnawa music, traditional Moroccan ritual music has become widely popular and is now played in cafes, nightclubs and at festivals. In this book Christopher Witulski looks at how this ritual music has been transformed by its popularity.

2. Witulski's research gives readers and researchers a look at the personal side of these changes, telling the stories of Gnawa musicians, their friends, their audiences and the places where they play. He looks at how musicians and religion have responded to these dynamics and questions about how music reflects Africanness, Islamic piety, and religious competence.

3. Gnawa music has a wide scholarly appeal - it is of great interest to ethnomusicologists of the Middle East and North Africa. It is increasingly gaining global interest as well.

The Gnawa Lions reveals a shifting terrain of music, ritual, and belief that follows the negotiation of musical authenticity, popular demand, and economic opportunity.


Traditionally gnawa musicians in Morocco played for all-night ceremonies where communities gathered to invite spirits to heal mental, physical, and social ills untreatable by other means. Now gnawa music can be heard on the streets of Marrakech, at festivals in Essaouira, in Fez's cafes, in Casablanca's nightclubs, and in the bars of Rabat. As it moves further and further from its origins as ritual music and listeners seek new opportunities to hear performances, musicians are challenged to adapt to new tastes while competing for potential clients and performance engagements. Christopher Witulski explores how gnawa musicians straddle popular and ritual boundaries to assert, negotiate, and perform their authenticity in this rich ethnography of Moroccan music. Witulski introduces readers to gnawa performers, their friends, the places where they play, and the people they play for. He emphasizes the specific strategies performers use to define themselves and their multiple identities as Muslims, Moroccans, and traditional musicians. The Gnawa Lions reveals a shifting terrain of music, ritual, and belief that follows the negotiation of musical authenticity, popular demand, and economic opportunity.

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Christopher Witulski is an instructor of ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Acknowledgements


Notes on transliteration and transcription


Chapter 1: One Minute in Meknes


Chapter 2: Defending Ritual Authority


Chapter 3: African Routes and Sufi Roots


Chapter 4: Making a Living as a Contemporary Ritual Musician


Chapter 5: New Opportunities


Chapter 6: Light Rhythms and Heavy Spirits


Chapter 7: Fighting New Demands


Chapter 8: Heritage and Hybridity


Chapter 9: New Authorities and Authenticities


Bibliography


Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.8.2018
Reihe/Serie Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Zusatzinfo 9 music ex., 5 figs.
Verlagsort Bloomington
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 150 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte African Studies • Anthropology • Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music • Christopher Witulski • Club • ethnography • Ethnomusicology • Gnawa • Indiana University Press • IUP • IU Press • Meknes • Middle Eastern Studies • Morocco • music • nighclub • PCMENA • Performance • Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa • Ritual • ritual music • The Gnawa Lions • venue • Witulski
ISBN-10 0-253-03676-3 / 0253036763
ISBN-13 978-0-253-03676-6 / 9780253036766
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