Black Spirits, White Saints: Sub-Saharan Music, Spirit Possession and the Geo-Cultural Imagination in North Africa

在突尼斯，奴隶、移民、朝圣者和其他撒哈拉以南移民的后裔发展了一种名为stambeli的治愈音乐。从外部看，斯坦贝利被理解为“非洲人”，意味着非突尼斯人、撒哈拉以南地区和其他地区。然而，从内部来说，斯坦贝利通过召唤黑灵（撒哈拉以南）和白圣徒（北非），在仪式上协商撒哈拉以南和北非的相遇，他们通过仪式性的恍惚来治愈并让人们知道他们的存在。我的研究将完成我对斯坦贝利的民族音乐学田野调查，以完成一部关于北非音乐、精神占有和地理文化想象的专著，并制作第一部斯坦贝利的录音。

In Tunisia, descendants of slaves, migrants, pilgrims, and other members of the sub¬ Saharan diaspora developed a healing music called stambeli. From without, stambeli is understood as 'African', meaning non-Tunisian, sub-Saharan, and other. From within, however, stambeli ritually negotiates the encounter between sub-Saharan and North Africa's by invoking Black Spirits (sub-Saharan) and White Saints (North African), who heal and make their presence known through ritualised trance. My research will finalise my ethno musicological fieldwork on stambeli in order to complete a monograph on music, spirit possession, and the geo-cultural imagination in North Africa, and to produce the first audio recordings of stambeli.