Ruthie Meadows, “Efficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban Ifá-Òrìsà ”
Social Sciences and Humanities Building, Room 2203 250 N Quad Avenue, Davis
Free
SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES BUILDING, ROOM 2203. Ruthie Meadows is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno. In the first book-length ethnographic study on music and Ifá divination in Cuba and Nigeria, Ruthie Meadows explores how Ifá practitioners in Cuba, Nigeria and the Caribbean are reshaping Yorubá rituals through cross-cultural exchange. 12p—1:30p. Free