Styling Blackness in Chile music and dance in the African diaspora / Juan Eduardo Wolf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Juan Eduardo, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and race--Chile.

Music and race.

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

Black people.

Popular music--Chile--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Summary:

In Styling Blackness in Chile, Juan Eduardo Wolf explores the multiple ways that Black individuals in Arica have performed music and dance to frame their Blackness in relationship to other groups of performers--a process he calls styling.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Accessing audiovisual materials

Introduction: Of stereotypes and styling

Part I: Styling Blackness as Afro-descendant. 1. The disappearance of Blackness and the emergence of Afro-descendants in Chile

2. Tumbe carnaval: styling Afro-descendant

3. Self-understanding as motivation for styling Afro-descendant

Part II: Other ways of styling Blackness. An interlude on the importance of styling Blackness and the African diaspora

4. Styling Blackness as criollo: dancing the Intimate

5. Styling moreno: taking pride in decent steps

6. Styling Blackness as indígena: racial order as carnivalesque?

7. A question of success: carnivalization and the future of styling

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253041166

0253041163

9780253041159

0253041155

OCLC:

1038033523