Listening with the Body
An Aesthetics of Spirit Possession Outside the Terreiro
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2650556 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Diego Diaz Meneses (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-124 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnomusicology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1836 • E-ISSN: 2156-7417 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/ethnomusicology.60.1.0089 |
| OpenAlex | W2370279052 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article discusses how those who experience spirit possession within Bahian Candomblé religion listen to ritual music outside of the ceremonial context. It proposes a theory of aesthetics based on bodily sensations and mythological imagination that initiated dancers develop through experience and socialization. This embodied aesthetics is then linked to discourses of black empowerment, processes of self- fashioning, and issues of secrecy and representation of Candomblé in Bahia
Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Mythology · Politics · Possession (linguistics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Arts and Performance Studies · Communication · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |