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UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Steven M. (Steven Michael) Friedson recordings: Prophet Healers of Northern Malawi, 1989
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Friedson, Steven M. (Steven Michael), 1948-
- Title
- UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Steven M. (Steven Michael) Friedson recordings: Prophet Healers of Northern Malawi
- Dates
- 198919891989
- Quantity
- 1 items : EC - 1 vct (VHS, sp, stereo, color) (2 copies); WD - 1 DVD; Duration: 29:50.
- Collection Number
- 1995018
- Summary
- Contents compiled from field tapes recorded by Steve Friedson among the Tumbuka of Malawi, 1986-87; publication produced in the facilities of the UW Instructional Media Services, c1989.
- Repository
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University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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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
Credits (shown at end of video): Karen Morell/producer; Steve Friedson/writer and editor; Michael Nixonarrator.
Also see doctoral dissertation by Steve Friedson: "The Dancing Prophets of Malawi", UW# Th39388, and accompanying video examples, archives #94-35.1 EC.
DVD copy made by UW Ethnomusicology Archives 2/2011.
Duration: 00:30:00
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Ethnomusicology
Geographical Names
- Africa
- Malawi
- Tumbuka
Form or Genre Terms
- Video recordings