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Music and the Formation of Sidi Identity in Western India

History workshop journal, 2008-04, Vol.65 (1), p.161-178 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Music and the Formation of Sidi Identity in Western India
Author: Basu, Helene
Subjects: African Cultural Groups ; African slaves ; Cultural Identity ; Dhows ; displacement ; Ethnic identity ; Ethnography ; ethnomusicology ; folk dance ; folk music ; Former slaves ; Gujarat ; History and criticism ; History on the Line ; India ; Indian culture ; Music ; Music practice ; Muslims ; Oceans ; Religious rituals ; Rituals ; Siddi (Indic people) ; Siddi (South Asians) ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Tanzania
Is Part Of: History workshop journal, 2008-04, Vol.65 (1), p.161-178
Description: The longstanding transoceanic migration of people, ideas, things and practices in sailing ships (dhows) resulted in the constitution of plural societies along the Indian coast. This essay considers the sea journey that transformed Africans into Indian Ocean travellers referred to as Sidi. It addresses the ways in which uprooted Africans created a place for themselves in Gujarat through practices of music-making embedded in spirit cosmologies and ‘cults of affliction’ involving ritual practices to ease mental or physical affliction. Fieldwork research conducted in Zanzibar and Gujarat shows that there are links between ritual practices performed by displaced Africans in both sites, and that these practices emerge as important forces in the forging of moral communities. A comparison of the processes of identity formation of former slaves in Zanzibar and Gujarat reveals significant insights into agencies of Africans in the Indian Ocean world, and so contributes to a globalization of Indian Ocean sites from below.
Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1363-3554
ISSN: 1477-4569
EISSN: 1477-4569
DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbm069
CODEN: HWOJFT
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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