Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“It was a real delight to read
Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form. This book is important. It brings a wealth of ethnographic experience and expertise to bear on foundational questions in ethnomusicology and the anthropology of ritual.” -- Jeffers Engelhardt, Amherst College
“Stepping away from a focus on a single tradition, genre, or community, Jankowsky offers a fine-grained study of an entire complex field of sonic practice rooted in the neighborhoods and shrines of post-revolutionary Tunis. In sensitively tracing how diverse micro-communities touch shoulders around a common pool of musical and affective resources,
Ambient Sufism is a signal contribution to the study of North African music, popular religious practice, and the social power of musical form.“ -- Jonathan Glasser, William and Mary
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Website Figures and Audio, Video, and Musical Examples
Notes on Transliteration, Musical Notation, and Companion Website
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Ambient Sufism
2 Ritual Reflexivity: Musicality, Sufi Pedigrees, and the Masters of “Intoxication”
3 Ritual Hospitality: Women Sufis and the Musical Ethics of Accommodation
4 Ritual Alterity: The Musical Management of Sub-Saharan Otherness
5 Ritual Remnants: Legacies of Jewish-Muslim Ritual Musical Convergences
6 Ritual as Resource: Set-List Modularity and the Cultural Politics of Staging Sufi Music
7 Conclusion: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
