Description
Music and encounters with spirits. Vol. 2: digital media presents ethnographic research conducted in various socio-cultural and religious contexts in which digital mediation practices intervene in the relationship between the performing arts and encounters with spirits and other non-human entities. Combining ethnomusicological and anthropological perspectives with the study of digital media, the case studies presented here are linked by a common thread that intersects digital technologies, mediation processes and the online circulation of sounds related to encounters with spirits, ranging from Africa (Silvia Bruni, Kawkab Tawfik) to Southeast Asia (Lorenzo Chiarofonte, Vincenzo Della Ratta, Luigi Monteanni). Richly illustrated and accompanied by references to multimedia resources available online, the contributions in this volume aim to offer educational resources for students of ethnomusicology, anthropology, history of religions and media studies, as well as research materials useful for investigating the musical, performative and media aspects associated with possession and encounters with spirits.
Lorenzo Chiarofonte is a researcher and lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. His research interests include ritual practices, musical and performance analysis, and media practices. He has conducted ethnographic field and digital research on music and dance in possession rituals, court musical and theatrical genres, and soundscapes in central Burma, as well as possession rituals in Indonesia (Sulawesi). She collaborates with the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies at the Giorgio Cini Onlus Foundation (Venice), where she coordinates the project Guides to listening to world music: Pathways to intercultural music education. She recently published the monograph Nathsaing: Ethnography and musical analysis of a ritual for spirits in Burma (2023 Rome, Neoclassica).
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