Christopher Witulski
Biographic Data
| ID | 219663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Witulski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Witulski |
| SIGNATURE | WITULSKI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instructor in Ethnomusicology Bowling Green State University Bowling Green OH USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Focus
Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco introduces the region and its history, highlighting how the pressures of religious life, post-colonial economic struggle, and global media come together within Moroccan musical life. Musical practices contextualize and clarify global historical and contemporary movements—many of which remain poorly understood—while articulating the daily realities of the region's populations in ways that rarely show through cu…
Gnawa
Jacques Willemont’s documentary Gnawa: Music and Beyond explores the history, symbolism and ritual practice of Morocco’s Gnawa traditions. The Gnawa are a population brought to Morocco from West Af
Contentious Spectacle
Recent changes to the gnawa ritual's musical practices in Morocco leave many in the community nostalgic for the previous generation's aesthetic and ideological tastes. Nostalgia in this case emanates from a confluence of performance practice and audience expectation, resulting in different potential "experiences of authenticity." The wide range of nostalgic authenticities available to the gnawa community are due, in part, to a set of overlapping …
The Gnawa Lions
This article outlines the pressures on young gnawa musicians embarking on a career in contemporary Morocco. The influences of the popular music industry provide new options for those looking to learn and advance. They can choose to engage the traditional system of apprenticeship or navigate their career outside it. This article outlines the pathway and expectations built into an apprenticeship-based mode of learning and becoming gnawa. It then mo…
Listening to Discourses of Ethics and Aesthetics
Music, as sound, physically and figuratively transcends previously erected or conceptualized boundaries. Artists and listeners each have the ability to aurally extend their values into new spaces, where others hear them. Passions and ideas gain traction through a constant aural negotiation that exists within the music that individuals use to soundtrack their public and private lives. As argued by the contributors to this roundtable, music both re…
Contentious Spectacle
Recent changes to the gnawa ritual's musical practices in Morocco leave many in the community nostalgic for the previous generation's aesthetic and ideological tastes. Nostalgia in this case emanates from a confluence of performance practice and audience expectation, resulting in different potential "experiences of authenticity." The wide range of nostalgic authenticities available to the gnawa community are due, in part, to a set of overlapping …
The Gnawa Lions
This article outlines the pressures on young gnawa musicians embarking on a career in contemporary Morocco. The influences of the popular music industry provide new options for those looking to learn and advance. They can choose to engage the traditional system of apprenticeship or navigate their career outside it. This article outlines the pathway and expectations built into an apprenticeship-based mode of learning and becoming gnawa. It then mo…
Focus
Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco introduces the region and its history, highlighting how the pressures of religious life, post-colonial economic struggle, and global media come together within Moroccan musical life. Musical practices contextualize and clarify global historical and contemporary movements—many of which remain poorly understood—while articulating the daily realities of the region's populations in ways that rarely show through cu…
Listening to Discourses of Ethics and Aesthetics
Music, as sound, physically and figuratively transcends previously erected or conceptualized boundaries. Artists and listeners each have the ability to aurally extend their values into new spaces, where others hear them. Passions and ideas gain traction through a constant aural negotiation that exists within the music that individuals use to soundtrack their public and private lives. As argued by the contributors to this roundtable, music both re…
The Gnawa Lions
This article outlines the pressures on young gnawa musicians embarking on a career in contemporary Morocco. The influences of the popular music industry provide new options for those looking to learn and advance. They can choose to engage the traditional system of apprenticeship or navigate their career outside it. This article outlines the pathway and expectations built into an apprenticeship-based mode of learning and becoming gnawa. It then mo…
Contentious Spectacle
Recent changes to the gnawa ritual's musical practices in Morocco leave many in the community nostalgic for the previous generation's aesthetic and ideological tastes. Nostalgia in this case emanates from a confluence of performance practice and audience expectation, resulting in different potential "experiences of authenticity." The wide range of nostalgic authenticities available to the gnawa community are due, in part, to a set of overlapping …
Focus
Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco introduces the region and its history, highlighting how the pressures of religious life, post-colonial economic struggle, and global media come together within Moroccan musical life. Musical practices contextualize and clarify global historical and contemporary movements—many of which remain poorly understood—while articulating the daily realities of the region's populations in ways that rarely show through cu…
Gnawa
Jacques Willemont’s documentary Gnawa: Music and Beyond explores the history, symbolism and ritual practice of Morocco’s Gnawa traditions. The Gnawa are a population brought to Morocco from West Af
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)