Creolized Aurality : Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics / Jérôme Camal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camal, Jerome, Author.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Guadeloupe--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Popular music--Political aspects--Guadeloupe.

Postcolonialism and music--Guadeloupe.

Postcolonialism and music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages).

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music-a secular, drum-based tradition-captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island's decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, Jérôme Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple-and often seemingly contradictory-cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are "creolized auralities"-expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Online Resources

Introduction / Listening for (Post)colonial Entanglements

One / The Poetics of Colonial Aurality

Two / Building an Anticolonial Aurality: Gwoka modènn as Counterpoetics

Three / Discrepant Creolizations: Music and the Limits of Hospitality

Four / Diasporic or Creole Aurality? Aesthetics and Politics across the Abyss

Five / Postnational Aurality: Institutional Detour and the Creolization of Sovereignty

Coda / Bigidi

Acknowledgments

Basic Gwoka Rhythms

Notes

Discography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226631806

022663180X

OCLC:

1105199830