Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic world : rituals and remembrances / edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo.
Diouf, Mamadou.; Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe.
2010
ML3486.A1 R49 2010 (Mapit)
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Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic world : rituals and remembrances / edited by Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo.
ISBN
9780472070961 (acid-free paper)
0472070967 (acid-free paper)
9780472050963 (acid-free paper)
0472050966 (acid-free paper)
9780472027477 ebook
Publication Details
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
ML3486.A1 R49 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.89/96
Summary
A long with linked modes of religiosity, music and dance have long occupied a central position in the ways in which Atlantic peoples have enacted, made sense of, and responded to their encounters with each other. This unique collection of essays connects nations from across the Atlantic--Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, among others--highlighting contemporary popular, folkloric, and religious music and dance. By tracking the continuous reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal traces, the contributors to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World collectively argue that music and dance are the living evidence of a constant (re)composition and (re)mixing of local sounds and gestures.
Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World distin-guishes itself as a collection focusing on the circulation of cultural forms across the Atlantic world, tracing the paths trod by a range of music and dance forms within, across, or beyond the variety of locales that constitute the Atlantic world. The editors and contributors do so, however, without assuming that these paths have been either always in line with national, regional, or continental boundaries or always transnational, transgressive, and perfectly hybrid/ syncretic. This collection seeks to reorient the discourse on cultural forms moving in the Atlantic world by being attentive to the specifics of the forms--their specifice geneses, the specific uses to which they are put by their creators and consumers, and the specific ways in which they travel or churn in place. --Book Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Diouf, Mamadou.
Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe.
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The economic vitamins of Cuba : sacred and other dance performances / Yvonne Daniel
Performing pentecostalism : music, identity, and the interplay of Jamaican and African American styles / Melvin L. Butler
"The women have on all their clothes" : reading the texts of holy hip-hop / Deborah Smith Pollard
Rhythmic remembrances / Yvonne Daniel
Citizenship and dance in urban Brazil : Grupo Corpo, a case study / Lucía M. Suárez
Muscle/memories : how Germaine Acogny and Diane McIntyre put their feet down / Susan Leigh Foster
"To carry the dance of the people beyond" : Jean Léon Destiné, Lavinia Williams, and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne / Millery Polyné
Motherland hip-hop : connective marginality and African American youth culture in Senegal and Kenya / Halifu Osumare
New York bomba : Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and a bridge called Haiti / Raquel Z. Rivera
Talking drums : soca and go-go music as grassroots identity movements / Deidre R. Gantt
Warriors of the world : rapso in Trinidad's festival culture / Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy
Timba Brava : Maroon music in Cuba / Umi Vaughan
Salsa memory : revisiting Grupo Folklórico y experimental nuevayorquino / Juan Flores and René López
Performing memories : the atlantic theater of cultural production and exchange / Carrol Smith-Rosenberg.

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