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World music and the Black Atlantic : producing & consuming African-Cuban musics on world music stages / Aleysia K. Whitmore. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitmore, Aleysia, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World music--History and criticism.
- World music.
- Popular music--Africa--Cuban influences.
- Popular music.
- Music and globalization.
- Orchestra Baobab.
- AfroCubism (Musical group).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- In the mid-20th century, African musicians took up Cuban music as their own. They claimed it as a marker of black Atlantic connections and of cosmopolitanism untethered from European colonial relations. Today, Cuban/African bands popular in Africa in the 1960s and '70s have moved into the world music scene in Europe and North America, and world music producers and musicians have created new West African-Latin American collaborations expressly for this market niche. This book follows two of these bands, Orchestra Baobab and AfroCubism, and the industry and audiences that surround them - from musicians' homes in West Africa, to performances in Europe and North America, to record label offices in London. This book examines the transnational experiences of musicians, industry personnel, and audiences as they produce, circulate, and consume music in a post-colonial era of globalization.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 27, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-008398-0
- 0-19-008396-4
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