{"product_id":"efficacy-of-sound-9780226828954","title":"Efficacy of Sound","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria.    Hailing from Cuba, Nigeria, and various sites across Latin America and the Caribbean, Ifá missionary-practitioners are transforming the landscape of Ifá divination and deity (òri`s?a`\/oricha) worship through transatlantic travel and reconnection. In Cuba, where Ifá and Santería emerged as an interrelated, Yorùbá-inspired ritual complex, worshippers are driven to African traditionalism by its promise of efficacy: they find Yorùbá approaches more powerful, potent, and efficacious.     In the first book-length study on music and Ifá, Ruthie Meadows draws on extensive, multisited fieldwork in Cuba and Yorùbáland, Nigeria, to examine the controversial Nigerian-style ritual movement in Cuban Ifá 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 t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With this innovative book, Meadows significantly expands our understanding of Afro-Cuban religious music and its ever-changing manifestations. Her exploration of ritual music associated with divination across the island, her focus on transatlantic religious dialogues between Nigeria and Cuba, her emphasis on the contested nature of religious orthodoxy, and her close attention to the struggles of women all represent major contributions to existing scholarship.” * Robin Moore, The University of Texas at Austin *\u003cbr\u003e“Meadows’s years of research and solid scholarship shed new light on the fast-moving \u003ci\u003enigeriano \u003c\/i\u003ereligious movement in Cuba. Her accessible and engaging writing allows diverse kinds of readers to understand a complex phenomenon. This important book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Cuban and Yorùbá music and religion, as well as a vast international readership of òrìṣà devotees and musicians.” * Amanda Villepastour, Cardiff University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Examples and Transcriptions\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: The Global Ifá Missionary: Revisionism and Nigerian-Style Ifá-Òrìṣà in Cuba\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Yorùbá Geographies and the Efficacy of the Far: The \u003ci\u003eDùndún \u003c\/i\u003e“Talking Drums” and Transatlantic Institutions in Havana\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Revolutionary Feminism and Gendered Translocality: Women and Consecrated \u003ci\u003eBatá\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Ìyánífá: Gendered Polarity and “Speaking Ifá”\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: The Efficacy of Pleasure and the Utility of the Close: Regionalism and All-Male \u003ci\u003eEgúngún \u003c\/i\u003eMasquerade\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The “Leopards” of Nigerian-Style Ifá-Òrìṣà: Visions from Cuba to Yorùbáland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732932702551,"sku":"9780226828954","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226828954.jpg?v=1719999005","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/efficacy-of-sound-9780226828954","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}