Black rhythms of Peru : reviving African musical heritage in the Black Pacific / Heidi Carolyn Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Heidi Carolyn, 1965-

Series:

Music/culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Peru--Music--History and criticism.

Black people.

Folk music--Peru--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Dance, Black--Peru--History.

Dance, Black.

Black theater--Peru--History.

Black theater.

History.

Music.

Peru.

Physical Description:

xi, 306 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2006]

Summary:

In the Late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought Peru's forgotten African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. In this groundbreaking study, Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the Black Pacific, which she describes as a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America's Pacific coast. Feldman documents the memory projects of charismatic Afro-Peruvian revival artists and companies, including Jose Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and Peru Negro, culminating with Susana Baca's world music performances in the 1990s. Readers will come to understand how Afro-Peruvian music and dance genres, although recreated in the revival to symbolize the ancient and forgotten past, express competing modern beliefs regarding what constitutes "Black Rhythms of Peru."

Contents:

Introduction : staging cultural memory in the Black Pacific

The criollo nostalgia of José Durand

Cumanana and the ancestral memories of Victoria Santa Cruz

The Peruvian negritud of Nicomedes Santa Cruz

Perú Negro and the canonization of black folklore

The legend of chincha

Susana Baca, immigrant nostalgia, and the cosmopolitan soul of black Peru

Conclusion : beginnings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-297) and index.

ISBN:

0819568147

0819568155

OCLC:

65425936

Publisher Number:

9780819568144

9780819568151