Different drummers [electronic resource] : rhythm and race in the Americas / Martin Munro.
Munro, Martin.
2010
ML3550 .M86 2010eb
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Title Different drummers [electronic resource] : rhythm and race in the Americas / Martin Munro.
Author Munro, Martin.
ISBN 9780520947405
9780520262829
9780520262836 (pbk.)
Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 280 p.)
Call Number ML3550 .M86 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.89/960729
Summary Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. This work traces the central, and contested, role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, the author takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, he shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Music of the African diaspora ; 14.
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