Efficacy of sound power, potency, and promise in the translocal ritual music of Cuban Ifa-orisa / Ruthie Meadows.
| Author/creator | Meadows, Ruthie |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
| Description | xv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Chicago studies in ethnomusicology Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. ^A261178 |
| Contents | The global Ifa missionary: revisionism and Nigerian-Style Ifa-Orisa in Cuba -- Yoruba geographies and the efficacy of the far: the Dundun "talking drums" and transatlantic institutions in Havana -- Revolutionary feminism and gendered translocality: women and consecrated Bata -- Iyanifa: gendered polarity and "speaking Ifa" -- The efficacy of pleasure and the utility of the close: regionalism and all-male egungun masquerade -- Epilogue: the "leopards" of Nigerian-Style Ifa-Orisa : visions from Cuba to Yorubaland. |
| Abstract | "Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifa missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifa divination and deity (orisa/oricha) worship through transatlantic travel and reconnection. In Cuba, where Ifa and Santeria emerged as an interrelated, Yoruba-inspired ritual complex, worshippers are driven to "African Traditionalism" by its promise of efficacy: they find Yoruba approaches more powerful, potent, and efficacious. In the first book-length study on music and Ifa, Ruthie Meadows draws on extensive, multi-sited fieldwork in Cuba and Yorubaland, Nigeria to examine the contentious "Nigerian-style" ritual movement in Cuban Ifa divination. Meadows uses feminist and queer of color theory along with critical studies of Africanity to excavate the relation between utility and affect within translocal ritual music circulations. Meadows traces how translocal Ifa priestesses (Iyanifa), female bata drummers (bataleras), and priests (babalawo) harness Yoruba-centric approaches to ritual music and sound to heighten efficacy, achieve desired ritual outcomes, and reshape the conditions of their lives. Within a contentious religious landscape marked by the idiosyncrasies of Revolutionary state policy, Nigerian-style Ifa-Orisa is leveraged to reshape femininity and masculinity, state religious policy, and transatlantic ritual authority on the island"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023005944 |
| ISBN | 9780226830223 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780226828954 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |