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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia), editor.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 3.

Critical and Cultural Musicology ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Music--History and criticism.

Black people.

Music--Africa--History and criticism.

Music.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 360 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge (Publisher), 2005.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz, wassoulou music, and popular and traditional musics of the Caribbean and Africa, framed with attention to the reciprocal relationships of the local and the global.

Contents:

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

CHAPTER 2 Jazz Performance as Ritual: The Blues Aesthetic and the African Diaspora

CHAPTER 3 Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity

CHAPTER 4 Jazz on the Global Stage

CHAPTER 5 Women, Music, and the 'Mystique' of Hunters in Mali

CHAPTER 6 Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in Maninnka Music of Kankan, Guinea

CHAPTER 7 Concepts of Neo-African Music as Manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera

CHAPTER 8 They Just Need Money: Goods and Gods, Power and Truth in a West African Village

CHAPTER 9 Militarism in Haitian Music

CHAPTER 10 Musical Revivals and Social Movements in Contemporary Martinique: Ideology, Identity, Ambivalence

CHAPTER 11 Art Blakey's African Diaspora.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

First published in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0203493052

OCLC:

1130718281

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.