Jeliya at the crossroads : learning African wisdom through an embodied practice / Lisa Feder.
Feder, Lisa, author.
2021
ML3760
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Title Jeliya at the crossroads : learning African wisdom through an embodied practice / Lisa Feder.
Author Feder, Lisa, author.
ISBN 9783030830595 (electronic bk.)
3030830594 (electronic bk.)
9783030830588
3030830586
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83059-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-83059-5 doi
Call Number ML3760
Dewey Decimal Classification 781.629634
Summary This book describes the remarkable culture of jeliya, a musical and verbal art from the Manding region of West Africa. Using an embodied practice as her methodology, the author reveals how she and her music teachers live in between local and global cultures. Her journey spans 20 years of fieldwork presented through personal and intimate stories, first as a student of the balafon instrument, then as a patron of the music. Tensions build in both the music and in social relations that require resolutions, underscoring the differences between two world views. Through balafon lessons, the author embodies values such as patience, courage, and generosity, resulting in a transformative practice that leads her to better understand her position vis-a-vis that of her jeli teachers. Meanwhile, jeliya itself, despite having been transmitted from teacher to student for 800 years, is currently in peril. Jelis cite modern globalized culture and people like the author herself as both a source of the problem as well as the potential solution.
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Series Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.
Available in Other Form Jeliya at the crossroads.
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1. Introduction
2. Sweetness in the Gambia
3. Moving with Gambians
4. Doing Time: The Balafon Workshops, United States
5. Direct Transmissions: Going with the Flow
6. At Home: Lessons in Respecting Time
7. Enchanting Cosmopolitan New York
8. Manding New York: Jeliya Bara Bang
9. Patronage: Becoming a Jatigi
10. Living in between Cultures
11. Paris 20152021.-12. Duniya: Weaving Pasts and Futures.

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