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Title The presence of the past : Madagascar, music, and devotion / filmed, produced, and narrated by Ron Emoff
Published Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (54 min.)
Summary People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed July 11, 2018)
In English
Subject Folk music -- Madagascar -- History and criticism
Spirit possession -- Madagascar -- Rites and ceremonies
Ancestor worship -- Madagascar -- Rites and ceremonies
Folk music.
SUBJECT Madagascar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80087494
Subject Madagascar.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Form Streaming video
Author Emoff, Ron, director, producer, narrator
Multicultural Media (Firm : Barre, Vt.), film distributor.