How Long to Read Recollecting from the Past

How Long Does it Take to Read Recollecting from the Past?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Recollecting from the Past by Ron Emoff

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Studies interconnections between sound production, spirit possession, colonialism and ceremonial remembering in Madagascar. The first serious ethnomusicological study of Malagasy music, Recollecting from the Past evokes the complex sound and performative aesthetic in Madagascar called maresaka. Maresaka pertains not only to musical expression but extends into ways of remembering the past, aesthetics of everyday life, and Malagasy concepts of self and community. Ron Emoff focuses on tromba spirit possession ceremonies in which Malagasy use devotional practice as an occasion to expressively re-figure worlds often impeded by colonialism and postcolonial phenomena, extreme material poverty, and widespread illness. Malagasy not only preserve the past, but they interpret, revalue and transform it to their own ends. Music is crucial to these performances since powerful ancestral spirits will not enter into the present if not enticed by masterful musical performances, and so music itself provides a complex symbolic system with which Malagasy can recall and reconstruct the past. This groundbreaking study will be of interest to readers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, African studies, postcolonial and performance studies.

How long is Recollecting from the Past?

Recollecting from the Past by Ron Emoff is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Recollecting from the Past Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Recollecting from the Past aloud.

What Reading Level is Recollecting from the Past?

Recollecting from the Past is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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