Richard C. Jankowsky is assistant professor of music at Tufts University.
"Stambeli is a welcome addition to existing ethnomusicological
accounts of music's role in the production of religious ecstasy. .
. . Jankowsky's study is a rich, nuanced, and theoretically
sophisticated ethnography of a little-studied tradition that helps
further our understanding of the complex cultural history of
Tunisia."
-- "Journal of Religion in Africa"
"Stambeli, Richard C. Jankowsky's ethnographic and historiographic
study of this Tunisian musical tradition, is a welcome contribution
to the scholarship on a North African country that is infrequently
the subject of such nuanced and extended treatment....Drawing
broadly on historical, ethnomusicological, and anthropological
sources, Jankowsky has composed a study that offers not only
meticulous analysis of the components of this distinctive musical
genre and trance healing tradition, but also a sophisticated
theoretical engagement with the socio-historical context that
fostered its emergence." --Rodney Collins "Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute"
"Stambeli is a stunningly original, ethnographically rich, and
theoretically nuanced work that nicely bridges the gap that often
separates ethnomusicology from less musically inclined
anthropological scholarship. Jankowsky knows his music, has spent
quality time as an apprentice stambeli musician, and has used this
highly focused experience in the field to think deeply about the
phenomenology of spirit possession--he has immersed himself in the
world of stambeli music, and we, the readers, are richer for
it."--Paul Stoller, West Chester University
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