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Author Averill, Gage.

Title A day for the hunter, a day for the prey : popular music and power in Haiti / Gage Averill.

Publication Info. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 276 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Bibliography Discography: pages 255-258.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index.
Contents A DAY FOR THE HUNTER A DAY FOR THE PREY; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation; 1 Introduction: "A Message to Pass from Mouth to Mouth"; 2 "Living from Their Own Garden": The Discourse of Authenticity; 3 "Konpa-dirkk for Life": Frangois Duvalier's Dictatorship and Konpa-dirt?k; 4 "Musicians Are a Single Family": Critical Discourse in Music under Baby Doc Duvalier; Photos following page 160; 5 "Watch Out for Them!": Dechoukaj and Its Aftermath; Epilogue: "Carnival of Hope"; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Discography; Interviews; lndex.
Summary The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle?one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused. Averill explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions,
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Subject Popular music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
Popular music.
Haiti.
Power (Social sciences) -- Haiti -- History -- 20th century.
Power (Social sciences)
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Averill, Gage. Day for the hunter, a day for the prey. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226032914 (DLC) 96034209 (OCoLC)35178623
ISBN 0226032930 (electronic book)
9780226032931 (electronic book)
9780226032917 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226032914 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226032924 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226032922 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0226032914 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226032922 (paperback ; alkaline paper)