Overview

Focus : Caribbean Music spotlights the religious performance practices that influence many popular and folk music traditions throughout the Caribbean and the Americas, as well as globally. Myriad styles of music--including rumba, salsa, latin jazz, and hip-hop--have their roots in the religious performance traditions of the African diaspora. It is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on musico-religious performance in a comparative Caribbean context within an engaging and accessible work designed as a core text for courses on musical traditions of the Caribbean. Beyond the book's specific musico-religious emphasis, it provides students and their professors with a useful and thought-provoking way to understand the roots of Caribbean popular and folk musics--from rumba and salsa to timba and hip-hop--as well as a context for discussions about religion, race, language, gender, embodied performance, and political dynamics.

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Author:   Katherine J. Hagedorn (Pomona College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v. 3
ISBN:  

9780415991490

ISBN 10:   0415991498
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Part I: Music, Religion, and Culture in the Caribbean and Beyond A. A Musical Mosaic: A Survey of Caribbean Performance Traditions B. Cultural Commonalities and Differences in the Caribbean C. The Afro-Caribbean as a Cultural Area D. Constructs of Race and Religion in Caribbean Identity E. Theoretical Frameworks: Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic and J. Lorand Matory's Black Atlantic Religion Part II: Catch the Spirit, Catch the Rhythm: Musico-Religious Performance in Haiti, Trinidad, and Cuba Haitian Vodou and Rara Trinidadian Shango Baptists and Calypso Cuban Regla de Ocha and Rumba Part III: Afro-Cuban Religious and Folkloric Performance: Blurred Boundaries Brief Introduction to the Cuban National Folkloric Ensemble (El Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba) Afro-Cuban Music and Cuban National Identity Without the Drums, There's Nothing (Sin los tambores, no hay na') Alberto Villarreal, Lead Percussionist of the Conjunto Folklorico Conclusion: Sacred Flows into the Secular Mainstream: Salsa and Timba in Cuba Los Van Van: Soy arere, soy conciencia, soy Orula (salsa) NG La Banda: Que Viva Chango (timba remake)

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Katherine J. Hagedorn is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Ethnomusicology Program at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and has published widely on Afro-Cuban ritual and folkloric music in Ethnomusicology, World of Music, British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Notes, and Yearbook for Traditional Music.

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