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Title The African diaspora : a musical perspective / edited by Ingrid Monson.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Edition 1st pbk. ed.
Description 1 online resource (vii, 366 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 3
Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 3.
Garland reference library of the humanities. Critical and cultural musicology ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Jazz performance as ritual: the blues aesthetic and the African diaspora / Travis A. Jackson -- Communities of style: musical figures of Black diasporic identity / Veit Erlmann -- Jazz on the global stage / Jerome Harris -- Women, music, and the "mystique" of hunters in Mali / Lucy DurĂ¡n -- Mamaya: renewal and tradition in Maninnka music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-45) / LansinĂ© Kaba and Eric Charry -- Concepts of neo-African music as manifested in the Yoruba folk opera / Akin Euba -- They just need money: goods and gods, power and truth in a west African village / Steven Cornelius -- Militarism in Haitian music / Gage Averill and Yuen-Ming David Yih -- Musical revivals and social movements in contemporary Martinique: ideology, identity, ambivalence / Julian Gerstin -- Art Blakey's African diaspora / Ingrid Monson.
Summary African Diaspora presents musical case studies, from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary issues about race, gender, politics, nationalism and music.
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Subject Black people -- Music -- History and criticism.
Black people -- Music.
Music -- Africa -- History and criticism.
Music.
Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia)
Other Form: Print version: African diaspora. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415967694 (OCoLC)224386868
ISBN 0203493052 (electronic book)
9780203493052 (electronic book)
0415967694 (Paper)