Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE (CHUP))

by SMFriedson (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $32.61

  A book on the critical role of music in African ritual which focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. It analyzes their practices through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country.