Song for a Baḥriyya spirit (ritual performance).

2009-05-19

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  • Song for a Baḥriyya spirit, featuring a trance dancer. Musically, the four-stroke muthallith rhythm modulates to the three-stroke sūdānī rhythm.

    Keywords: Sṭambēlī; ritual music; black Tunisians; Tunisia.

    Accompanies chapter 4 of: Jankowsky, Richard C. Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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  • "Song for a Baḥriyya spirit (ritual performance)." Video recording by Richard Jankowsky, Tunis, Tunisia, 2009.
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