Spectacles musicaux et pratiques thérapeutiques au Cameroun: une étude sémiologique du Ndji Ndji chez les Basaa

Abstract

Sometimes there are some music that provock trance effect that gives to actors the sensation of coming out of their bodies to the extent of altering their conscience. This type of music is entitled " Musical performing and therapeutic practices in Cameroon: The aim of the semiological study of Ndji Ndji found in the Bassa community is to decide symbols and musical codes inscribed in the matrixes of theatrality and performance of ritual music in their environment. In other words, the Ndji Ndji is use as a model in order to get out symbolic ritual and and their impacts. More so the role played by this artists, actors, or ecorcists (celebrants) and the music instruments use in the show will be examined. This topic is treated under the semiological prism of show. In the perspective of crypto communication and ethnomusicological. The investigation and the ethnographic observation are taking place in the Bambimbi zone. The data collected shows that the Bambimbi transe music is made up of five musical codes with the induction of theatrality and performativity. The datas are speeches, gestures, actions, objects and the frame. These codes are a linkage between the cultural and the Bassa culture, and they are common with the exorciss music of transe. Finally the signifier and the signifier that interacts to exhibit the role of this total show in the cosmogony of the Bassa people.