22 \u2013 23 OCTOBER 2018
\nVENICE, CA\u2019 FOSCARI UNIVERSITY
\nAND ISLAND OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE<\/p>\n
\u201cMusic and Rite\u201d is a series of seminars focused on the relationship\u00a0between music and the sacred sphere, promoted by the Intercultural\u00a0Institute of Comparative Music Studies in collaboration with Ca\u2019 Foscari\u00a0University, Venice. This year the seminar is curated by Giorgio\u00a0Adamo and Moya Aliya Malamusi, a musician from Malawi and lecturer\u00a0at the University of Vienna. For the fourth edition of the seminars,
\nten musicians and dancers, five women and five men from the same\u00a0village in the district of Blantyre (Malawi), have been invited to San\u00a0Giorgio re-enact two rituals related to the cult of the dead and female
\ninitiation, which are still practiced in their community.
\nThe Gule Wankulu (Great Mask Dance) is considered to be one of the most important cultural\u00a0expressions of the Chewa, the largest ethnic-linguistic group in Malawi, also present\u00a0in some areas of Mozambique and Zambia. Included in the UNESCO list of the Intangible\u00a0Cultural Heritage of Humanity, this dance belongs to the rituals of Nyau secret societies,\u00a0mainly associated with the cult of the dead, still widely practiced for its original purposes. The\u00a0term Chinamwali, on the other hand, refers to a female initiation ritual and to the songs and\u00a0dances characterising it. Despite the efforts at dissuasion by Christian churches, the ritual is\u00a0still practiced in many villages as preparation for adult life and marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66407,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1594,1470],"cini_tax_institutes":[28],"cini_tax_event_locations":[],"class_list":["post-66235","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-convegni-e-seminari-2","cini_tax_event_categories-events","cini_tax_institutes-etnomusicologia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n