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The noise silence makes : secularity and Ghana's drum wars /

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"The Noise Silence Makes analyzes the annual, city-wide ban on noise-making required by the Ga indigenous community in Accra in preparation for the Ga's primary religious festival. The centuries-old "ban on drumming" tradition became a point of conflict in the 1990s when newly po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goshadze, Mariam (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Series:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Subjects:
Gã (African people) > Religion.
Gã (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Drum > Performance > Ghana > Religious aspects.
Noise control > Law and legislation > Ghana > Accra.
Christianity and other religions > Ghana > Accra.
Accra (Ghana) > Religious life and customs.
Gã (Peuple d'Afrique) > Religion.
Gã (Peuple d'Afrique) > Rites et cérémonies.
Christianisme > Relations > Ghāna > Accra.
Table of Contents:
  • Altered ontologies and reversed paradigms
  • Jumping on the anti-noise bandwagon : drumming permits for Accra's residents
  • Winds of change : The ban on drumming enters the public sphere
  • The power of sound : cross-world sonic theologies
  • When the deities visit : translating religion into the language of the secular
  • Sacred acoustic inspectors : Ghanaian state and noise abatement during the festival
  • Let us offer thanks for the nation of Ghana : as a civil ceremony of thanksgiving
  • Layered epistemologies of contemporary Accra.