Spirit Possession
Terms
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- Newspaper accounts
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weeping
wailing
ecstasy-ridden hysteria
they bite their lips until they bleed
twistings, orgiastic jerks - When was the Ed Sullivan Appearance?
- Feb 64
- With whom did the Beatles famously commune in 1968?
- Maharishi Mahesh Yoga
- "uncontrolled vocal and motor responses"
- Evan Davies, 1969, Journal of the History of Ideas, "Psychological Characteristics of Beatle Mania"
- Please Please me Date
- 2/63
- Onset of Shona Trance
- something akin to epileptic fit, cries of anguish
- Royal Variety Show date
- 11/63
- Ray Charles Cover
- I got a woman
- Soft, Gospel, Call and Response Groups
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The Shirelles
The Drifters
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Article about snake-handlers
- Steven Kane, 1974
- name of Shona God
- Mwari
- The whole thing is a farce
- E.V. Bogomas, 1968
- "More Popular then Jesus" and the far right
- Mark Sullivan, 1987
- Oesterreich
- 1921, trans. 1930
- Polyrhythm "confuses the brain"
- William Sargent, 1957
- Who says Long Tall Sally made frenzy in 1961?
- Hunter Davies, authorized bio of the Beatles, 1985
- Percussion and Transition
- Andrew Needham, 1967
- Sound and Ritual
- Anthony Jackson, 1968
- Bourguignon's 5-year study
- 1963-8
- Bouguignon's "Possession"
- 1975
- Original Rouget
- 1980
- Psychological Study of Beatlemania
- Evan Davies, 1969
- Possession music of the Shangana-Tsonga
- Thomas F. Johnston, 1972
- Berliner
- 1976, 1978
- Rock & Roll, the devil's diversion
- Bob Larson, 1970
- Noebel
- 1965-6
- Ethnography of a Beatles fan
- Dianne Tye, 1987.
- Shangana-Tsona tamburines
- ncomane
- Shangana-Tsonga Rattles
- marhonge
- Primary instrument in mbira music
- kushaura
- Shona gourd rattle
- hosho
- Shona low humming singing style
- mahonÂ’era
- Shona high yodelling style
- huro
- Shona poetic verba style
- kudektera
- Sources of American Styles in the Music of the Beatles
- Charles Gower Price, 1997
- Tarantism: First order of business to determine type of spider
- Ernesto de Martino (1966)
- Tarentism in Apulia
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Henry Sigerest, 1948
Draws on Physicians, Athanasius Kircher - Three kinds of possession Tonga
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Basangu (Shamanism)
Masabe ("airplane, guitar")
Zilube (ghost possession) - Organizing Principles
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1 healthy insider vs. psychotic outsider
2 relationship of informant to participant
3 Connection with religion/diety
4 prescribed or spontaneous behavior?
5 Provenance of the spirits - Beatlemania—A Study in Adolescent Enthusiasm
- A. J. W. Taylor, 1966
- "Fashion" of nervous attacks among Swahili women
-
Richard Thrunwald, 1935.
Black and White in East Africa
Cf. Leonora Greenbaum, IM Lewis - A Physiological Explanation of Unusual Behavior in Ceremonies Involving Drums
- Andrew Neher, 1962.
- Shangana-Tsonga Zulu spirit music
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duple-time, "mandhlozi" rhythms
pentatonic modes - Shangana-Tsonga Ndau Spirit music
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triplet "xidzmba" rhythms
heptatonic modes - Shangana-Tsonga spirit music for extremely stubborn spirits
- "XiNdau": duple-time, hexatonic
- second interlocking part in mbira music
- kutsinhir, emphasizes bass notes
- Women-only ululation throughout the night at Shona bira
- kupururudza
- IM Lewis groups with women more frequently possessed
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Singapore
New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Polynesia
Zambia