Listening with the Body: An Aesthetics of Spirit Possession Outside the Terreiro
Juan Diego Diaz Meneses
Ethnomusicology February 1, 2016 DOI: 10.5406/ethnomusicology.60.1.0089 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes that initiated dancers in Bahian Candomblé develop an embodied aesthetics through bodily sensations and mythological imagination shaped by experience and socialization, and argues that this aesthetics connects to black empowerment discourses, self-fashioning, and debates over secrecy and representation of Candomblé in Bahia. |
Abstract
Abstract: 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