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Thomas Turino Perman, Anthony Wilford 2015-09-25T22:54:12Z 2015-09-25T22:54:12Z 10000-01-01 2008 2008 "This dissertation is an ethnography of the dance/drumming practices of Ndau communities in Zimbabwe along the Mozambique border. I attend to the specific drumming practices of the spirit possession ceremonies central to local cosmological understanding, as well as the secular muchongoyo drumming that has become an important marker of Ndau identity and community. More than an examination of style and form, I want to understand why these practices thrive, how they affect people and the ways in which they contribute to the perpetuation of Ndau communities. Most importantly, I examine why drumming is important to and affective for the people I worked with. I address Ndau musical practices in relation to four major themes: possession and cosmology, history and history-making, ""aesthetics"" and the ethics of performance, and emotion and its relationship to performance. I explore how the ceremonial and historical contexts of performance in these communities shape people's ethical and emotional responses while simultaneously exploring how local emotional responses to performance situate locals' own spiritual and historical understanding of self and society." Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:54:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3337886.pdf: 5711242 bytes, checksum: 131707ff0717302bad4aa76391b14798 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87084 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 380 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85803 (MiAaPQ)AAI3337886 eng Anthropology, Cultural History, Ethics, and Emotion in Ndau Performance in Zimbabwe: Local Theoretical Knowledge and Ethnomusicological Perspectives text Music Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.