Rites, rights and rhythms : a genealogy of musical meaning in Colombia's black Pacific / Michael Birenbaum Quintero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birenbaum Quintero, Michael, author.

Series:

Currents in Latin American & Iberian music

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Colombia--History and criticism.

Folk music.

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

Black people.

Black people--Colombia--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Music.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and social importance. 'Rites, Rights & Rhythms' is a book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways that it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to demonstrate national heritage, to generate economic development, and to provide social amelioration in a context of war.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 8, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780190903220

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.