Songs and Gifts at the Frontier

by Jose S. Buenconsejo

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Current Research in Ethnomusicology: Outstanding Dissertations

ISBN-10 0415941245

ISBN-13 9780415941242

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 13th, 2002

Print length 444 Pages

Weight 726 grams

Product Classification: Theory of music & musicology Music: styles & genres Physical anthropology

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In the search for the social meaning of song, this book connects the performativity of ritual song to important cultural domains such as political economy and history.

This book investigates the particular history and social experience by a marginalized society in Mindanao Island, Philippines, through an analysis of the speech, song and dance in spirit possession ritual. Using the concepts of exchange and reciprocity, Buenconsejo connects the performativity of ritual song to the formation and maintenance of sociability, personhood and subjectivity. Also inlcludes maps.

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