UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Steven M. (Steven Michael) Friedson recordings: Dancing Prophets of Malawi, 1991

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Friedson, Steven M. (Steven Michael), 1948-
Title
UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Steven M. (Steven Michael) Friedson recordings: Dancing Prophets of Malawi
Dates
1991
Quantity
1 videotapes  :  EC - 1 vct (VHS, sp, color); Duration: 00:45:00; also see dissertation in the University of Washington Music Library (TH 39388).
Collection Number
1994025
Summary
Recorded by the collector during fieldwork among the Tumbuka of Malawi 1986-87; dissertation tape completed 1991.
Repository
University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Access is restricted.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Steven Friedson is a research professor of music and anthropology and head of the ethnomusicology program at the University of North Texas. For several decades he has been conducting comparative research on music and ritual in Africa. His initial work in northern Malawi takes a phenomenological approach to musical experience in traditional diagnostics and therapeutics among the Tumbuka-speaking peoples. This was followed by a long-term research project in the Volta Region of Ghana, studying one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast, a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the Northern Region of the country.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Videotape accompanies Ph.D. dissertation, "The Dancing Prophets of Malawi: Music and Healing Among the Tumbuka" (UW Th 39388).

Archives videotape copied from UW Music Listening Center copy (videotape VHS 67).

Note: tracking problem on both Archives and Listening Center copies at 36:00 (for 5-8 minutes); may be on original per collector's postscript, p. 247 of dissertation.

Collection number changed from 94-35 to 94-25 6/96 to fill numbering gap.

Total duration: 45 min.

Documentation: List of video examples

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Ethnomusicology

Geographical Names

  • Africa
  • Malawi
  • Tumbuka

Form or Genre Terms

  • Video recordings