The African diaspora : a musical perspective / edited by Ingrid Monson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia)

Series:

Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1995.

Garland reference library of the humanities. Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 3.

Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1995. Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Music--History and criticism.

Black people.

Black people--Music.

Music--Africa--History and criticism.

Music.

Africa.

Physical Description:

viii, 366 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland Pub., 2000.

Summary:

In eleven original essays, this collection examines such diverse musics and issues as the blues aesthetic and the African diaspora in jazz performance; different versions of the 1939 song "Mbube," also known as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"; the globalization of jazz from an insider's perspective; the power of women in the popular "wassoulou" music of Mali; the "mamaya" repertory of Guinea in the 1930s and 40s; Yoruba folk opera; traditional Ewe music as taught by the Dagbe Cultural Institute in Ghana; the role of militarism in Haitian vodou music; musical revivals and social movements in contemporary Martinique; and the role of African diaspora in the music and statements of jazz drummer Art Blakey. The contributors in this volume address why music claims such pride of place in the African diasporic population, and to provide particular examples of the interweaving of the local and global in the lives of musicians and their audiences.

Contents:

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 stage / Jerome Harris

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: goods and gods, power and truth in a west African village / Steven Cornelius

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815323824

OCLC:

42291009