Retour sur la dimension identificatoire de la musique de transe. Le cas des rituels sabo et rombo chez les Tandroy de Toliara, Madagascar by Élisabeth Rossé

“…This article offers a redefinition of the identificatory dimension of trance music based on the analysis of possession rituals among the Tandroy in southern Madagascar. …”
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Aussi vite que possible… by Antoine Hennion

“…Drawing on a comparison between different genres, I would like to suggest that beyond the classical opposition between body, entertainment, collective trance music, on a side, and written music that focuses on the composition of a work and is largely developed by opposing virtuoso seduction, on the other, it is possible to give virtuosity its ability to express a musical truth by turning it into an aesthetic of performance: less a technical feat than a necessary positioning of the work in the fragility of a present that is always to be recovered.…”
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