The Presence of the Past - Madagascar, Music, and Devotion DVD Consumer Version

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Includes one DVD and one CD of audio tracks, notes, maps and photos!DVD and notes by Ron Emoff Ph.D.Ohio State University at NewarkSchool of Music andDepartment of Anthropology People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar.

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DVD - Disc One Video Segment 1 (2:10-6:10) Basesa
Video Segment 2 (6:11-9:24) Sodina/famadihana
Video Segment 3 (9:25-22:02) Betsimisaraka tromba ceremony
Video Segment 4 (22:03-30:33) Antandroy tromba
Video Segment 5 (30:34-36:30) Betsimisaraka tsaboraha
Video Segment 6 (36:31-41:00) Fahavoazana
Video Segment 7 (41:01-49:44) Lutheran exorcism
Video Segment 8 (49:45-53:36) Finale

DVD program is continuous, but above provides reference to contents DVD Running Time: 53:36

CD - Audio Tracks - Disc Two

Tracks:

1. Tananane Tanana Tamatave - 4:03
2. Afindrafindrao - :55
3. Hira taona - 3:48
4. Tromba Composition (A) - 2:23
5. Tromba Composition (B) - 7:02
6. Valse - 4:03
7. Antandroy song - 4:51
8. Toerana roa - 3:26
9. Tromba Composition (C) - 5:43


CD - Notes, Maps, Photos
(Disc Two) 24 Page Essay by Ron Emoff containing photos, maps, full track listing,
glossary and bibliography on PDF format.

This is the consumer version that contains no public performance rights.