Sound-tracking Mysore
Music, Space Music and Communitas at the Dasara Festival Procession
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Beschreibung
This ethnographic project examines the Jumbo Savari Procession during the Dasara Festival in the city of Mysore in India with a particular interest in spatial organisation and social dynamics. The procession, which marks the culmination of the festival, involves the worship of the local goddess Chamundeshwari whose figure is paraded on an elephant through the streets of Mysore. Building on original fieldwork, this research explores spatiality and social interaction within the procession. By examining musical representations and spatial indicators, this study investigates the intersection of space and social activity in light of musical performances. While the entire procession is analysed, the main focus is on the Mysore Police Band, a key participant identified through fieldwork. Victor Turner's concepts of liminality, liminoid phenomena and communitas serve as a theoretical framework for analysing ritualistic and performative elements of the Jumbo Savari Procession.
This book explores the relationship between sound, ritual and space, showing how mobile music interacts with social structures and identities through the example of the Mysore Police Band.
An ethnographic analysis of the Jumbo Savari Procession, focusing on social, spatial and ritual dynamics.
For researchers, students and anyone interested in ethnomusicology, rituals and processions - a study of music in motion and its role in shaping social and spatial experiences.
Autor*in
Jörg-Henning Jüdt
Dr. Jörg-Henning Jüdt is a musicologist specialising in ethnomusicology. His research focuses on the relationship between sound, space and community, particularly in musical processions, festive practices and ritual soundscapes, examining how music, movement and space construct religious, social and political meanings. Employing ethnographic fieldwork he also examined social hierarchies and status changes in the Cologne techno scene between 2010 and 2015 as an active Scene Member. In addition to his academic research and teaching at the university, he has worked as a dramaturge, designing and managing concert programmes and giving introductory lectures for symphony concerts.
Themen in »Sound-tracking Mysore«
Procession Ritual Mobile Music Spatial Order cultural perspective