The African diaspora : a musical perspective / edited by Ingrid Monson.
The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. --From publisher's descriptio...
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| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2003.
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| Series: | Critical and cultural musicology ;
v. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Traveling music and musicians
- Jazz performance as ritual : the Blues Aesthetic and the African Diaspora / Travis A. Jackson
- Communities of style : musical figures of Black Diasporic identity / Veit Erlmann
- Jazz on the global state / Jerome Harris
- Part 2. Beyond tradition or modernity
- Women, music, and the "mystique" of hunters in Mali / Lucy Durán
- Mamaya : renewal and tradition in Maninnka music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-45) / Lansiné Kaba and Eric Charry
- Concepts of Neo-African music as manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera / Akin Euba
- They just need money : good and gods, power and truth in a West African village / Steven Cornelius
- Part 3. Contradictory moments
- Militarism in Haitian music / Gage Averill and Yuen-Ming David Yih
- Musical revivals and social movements in contemporary Martinique : ideology, identity, ambivalence / Julian Gerstin
- Art Blakey's African Diaspora / Ingrid Monson.