2016/01/13 by Juan Diego Díaz Meneses · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Arts and Performance Studies #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
paper · doi:10.5406/ethnomusicology.60.1.0089
openalex publication_date 2016/01/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Abstract This article discusses how those who experience spirit possession within Bahian Candomblé religion listen to ritual music outside of the ceremonial context. It proposes a theory of aesthetics based on bodily sensations and mythological imagination that initiated dancers develop through experience and socialization. This embodied aesthetics is then linked to discourses of black empowerment, processes of self- fashioning, and issues of secrecy and representation of Candomblé in Bahia