CivilisationsPub Date : 2018-08-12DOI: 10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4961
Angelina Tallaj
{"title":"Religion on the dance floor: Afro-Dominican music and ritual from altars to clubs","authors":"Angelina Tallaj","doi":"10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4961","url":null,"abstract":"In this essay, I examine the current New York scene and the emerging discourses surrounding the recent visibility of Dominican Voodoo (Vudu) and its music. When Dominicans migrated, they brought with them these marginalized genres of music including the music of Vudu, and, since the 2000s, this music (palo) has moved from the religious arena to the popular music world, in turn changing the nature of the religious rituals. In New York City, Vudu ceremonies can now publicly feature drumming and possession and are practiced in commercial venues rather than in private homes and altar spaces. While this move of religious ceremonies from concealed spaces to public dance clubs has led many believers to complain of a compromised authenticity, from the perspective of ‘lived religion’, all such actions within this environment could be seen as forms of religion. Public and secular performances have changed how practices such as spirit possession are experienced, enacted, and perceived. For example, club goers have developed a new way of dancing to the music where mimicking spirit possession is part of the dance. It is precisely these new seemingly secular practices that have given Dominicans the freedom to exercise more agency in their religious identification.","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45819414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 2018-08-12DOI: 10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.5069
C. Biermann
{"title":"Composer avec les orishas. Acteurs et actrices de la religiosité du candombe afro-uruguayen","authors":"C. Biermann","doi":"10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.5069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.5069","url":null,"abstract":"A partir d’une analyse des trajectoires et des compositions musicales de Pedro Ferreira (1910-1980) et Chabela Ramirez (nee en 1958), cet article explore la maniere dont ces deux figures ont joue et jouent le role de « passeurs » de mythes associes aux orishas, les divinites d’origine yoruba des religions afro-cubaines et afro-bresiliennes, dans le repertoire chante du candombe afro-uruguayen. En resituant les sources et les enjeux de la creation de leurs chansons, deux periodes seront ainsi mises en relation. La premiere est celle de l’appropriation des musiques afro-cubaines inspirees des pratiques religieuses, a partir des annees 1950, dans la phase de « tropicalisation » du candombe. La deuxieme, a partir de la fin des annees 1990, concerne la resemantisation religieuse du candombe par le biais d’instruments, de rythmiques, de contenus poetiques sur les orishas, dans un contexte d’expansion des religions afro-bresiliennes en Uruguay, initiee depuis les annees 1950. En composant avec les orishas, ces musiciens ont confere au candombe une sonorite afro associee a une sacralite, dans un mouvement de construction d’afrodescendance en Uruguay, qui, tout en puisant dans une culture religieuse afro transnationale, soutient la creation d’une memoire culturelle specifique dans l’espace national uruguayen.","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46662816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 2018-08-12DOI: 10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.5026
M. Gidal
{"title":"Transnationalising Brazilian ritual music: Quimbanda in Argentina and Charismatic Catholicism in the USA","authors":"M. Gidal","doi":"10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.5026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.5026","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares the ritual music and religious contexts of two ceremonies associated with Brazil that are practiced abroad, specifically a Quimbanda ceremony in Buenos Aires, Argentina and a Catholic mass for healing in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Participants at the first ceremony (within a worship community that practices Afro-Brazilian religions) were mostly native Argentines, while those at the second were mostly Brazilian migrants. In both situations, the clergy and musicians are the primary agents who transnationalise the music from Brazil by learning, curating, and leading the ritual music. The processes of transnationalising ritual music of Quimbanda and the Charismatic Catholic Renewal (CCR) from Brazil to Argentina and the United States are quite similar, yet the practitioners, supernatural entities, and music have contrasting national affiliations in relation to their local settings. While both case studies include mobility, migration, and media, their comparison highlights the differing extents to which these factors have contributed to transnationalising ritual music. The ethnographic data are from ethnomusicological fieldwork conducted in 2008 and 2015.","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42399805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 2018-08-12DOI: 10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4918
Hélène Sechehaye, Stéphanie Weisser
{"title":"« En Belgique, il n’y a rien » ? Le rituel de la līla chez les Gnawa maroxellois","authors":"Hélène Sechehaye, Stéphanie Weisser","doi":"10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4918","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article examine la maniere dont les Gnawa de la communaute marocaine de Bruxelles pratiquent le rituel de la līla, une ceremonie nocturne de transe originellement a vocation therapeutique. La reterritorialisation de cette pratique et les contraintes symboliques et pratiques qu’elle genere induisent plusieurs reconfigurations d’elements du rituel, comme l’absence d’un sacrifice animal (qui en conditionne l’efficacite therapeutique), la presence feminine au sein d’ensemble musicaux mixtes, et l’estompement des differentiations entre les styles musicaux lies aux regions d’origine des maitres.Bien que le volet spirituel des pratiques semble etre fortement lie au Maroc, et donc moins central a Bruxelles, ces ceremonies continuent d’etre organisees. Les adeptes et les musiciens mettent en place differentes strategies pour negocier les difficultes liees a l’eloignement, et des postures variees sont adoptees par les maitres pour se positionner par rapport a ce dernier. Communement admise comme un facteur incontournable, cette deterritorialisation s’avere etre aussi une liberation : affranchis de la contrainte d’efficacite rituelle et therapeutique dont ils ne sont plus les garants, les Gnawa maroxellois peuvent reinventer le sens des līlat.","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42120507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 2018-08-12DOI: 10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4822
Stephanie Lou George
{"title":"Invoking the supernatural and the supranational: Tappu, trance and Tamil recordings in Indo-Guyanese ’Madras Religion’ and the politics of","authors":"Stephanie Lou George","doi":"10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4822","url":null,"abstract":"The sonic dimensions of Indo-Guyanese Madrasi music – both acoustic “live” performances at temples and the consumption and playback of recordings – mediate forms of power, authority, and verity on the basis of cultural ideals and historically contingent modes of listening. One’s ability to access knowledge about the otherwise ambiguous and fraught origins of Madrasi ecstatic practices primarily occurs through people’s embodiment of the sonic presence of the goddess Mariamman. Madrasi sonic practices have become ever more prestigious and valorised, particularly in the North American context. A crucial catalyst for this growing prestige has been the emergence of a discourse promulgated by Indo-Guyanese/Americans which emphasises Madrasi sonic practices as having “ancient Tamil” origins. I argue throughout that Madrasi music, though marginalised, offers people a compelling sonic modality that produces feelings or “vibrations” of “power,” “proof,” and presence as political acts amid inter- and intragroup tensions. I suggest that people are drawn to the sonic dimensions of Madrasi music because they mediate and assert cultural authenticity, religious authority, and verity as they seek forms of belonging in the context of South Asian American diaspora culture. I analyse how the sonic-somatic embodiment of Madrasi music invokes tactile sensations of “Tamil” diasporic sounds.","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45026598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 2018-08-12DOI: 10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4865
Alice Aterianus-Owanga, R. Jadinon
{"title":"Du bwiti en clips et en cassettes : la transnationalisation des musiques initiatiques du Gabon","authors":"Alice Aterianus-Owanga, R. Jadinon","doi":"10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/CIVILISATIONS.4865","url":null,"abstract":"En croisant les approches anthropologique et historique sur la musique, cet article examine certaines routes, acteurs et objets musicaux qui ont accompagne la circulation du rite initiatique gabonais bwiti dans des reseaux et espaces transnationaux. Il demontre que cette circulation transnationale des musiques rituelles s’appuie sur des mobilites anciennes de musiciens, et que si elle s’entrelace avec des demarches de patrimonialisation, elle se deroule principalement en dehors des initiatives de l’Etat-nation. Il s’interesse a la maniere dont l’activite musicale, centrale au deroulement du rituel dans les temples du Gabon, l’est aussi devenue depuis quelques annees sous de nouveaux aspects en dehors des frontieres du Gabon, dans les ceremonies de bwiti New-Age, ou aupres des Gabonais de l’etranger. Il decrit enfin comment les sonorites et les representations du bwiti se diffusent via les performances de quelques artistes hip-hop, en lien avec leur affirmation de retour aux sources et de reafricanisation. Finalement, cet article reflechit au role de la musique dans la mise a disposition de fragments d’une religion dont la transnationalisation en tant que telle reste entravee par diverses barrieres.","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41438678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 1989-03-30DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.3514
Youssef Rahimlou
{"title":"Aspects de l’expansion belge en Égypte sous le régime d’occupation britannique (1882-1914)","authors":"Youssef Rahimlou","doi":"10.4000/civilisations.3514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3514","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70530834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 1989-03-30DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.3507
A. Dero
{"title":"L’alchimie arabe dans le fihrist","authors":"A. Dero","doi":"10.4000/civilisations.3507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70531077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CivilisationsPub Date : 1989-03-30DOI: 10.4000/civilisations.3510
Hosam Elkhadem
{"title":"Du latin à l’arabe","authors":"Hosam Elkhadem","doi":"10.4000/civilisations.3510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/civilisations.3510","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80946,"journal":{"name":"Civilisations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70530645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}