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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783969503321

Titolo

The African diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : a musical perspective / / edited by Ingrid Monson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-135-88572-9

1-60456-204-8

1-138-17789-X

1-135-88573-7

1-280-05753-X

0-203-49305-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Critical and cultural musicology

Altri autori (Persone)

MonsonIngrid T (Ingrid Tolia)

Disciplina

780.8996

780/.89/96

781.626

Soggetti

Black people - History and criticism

Music - Africa - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: New York; London: Garland, 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; Jazz Performance as Ritual: The Blues Aesthetic  and the African Diaspora; Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity; Jazz on the Global Stage; Women, Music, and the ~Mystique~ of Hunters in Mali; Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in Maninnka Music of Kankan, Guinea (1935  45); Concepts of Neo-African Music as Manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera; They Just Need Money: Goods and Gods, Power and Truth in a West African Village; Militarism in Haitian Music

Musical Revivals and Social Movements in Contemporary Martinique: Ideology, Identity, AmbivalenceArt Blakey's African Diaspora; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.