| Description |
xviii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (CD) (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
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4 3/4 in |
| Contents |
Guide to the Compact Disc Rara! -- Introducing Rara -- 1. Work and Play, Pleasure and Performance -- 2. Vulgarity and the Politics of the Small Man -- 3. Mystical Work: Spirits on Parade -- 4. Rara and "the Jew": Premodern Anti-Judaism in Postmodern Haiti -- 5. Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare -- 6. Voices under Domination: Rara and the Politics of Insecurity -- 7. Rara in New York City: Transnational Popular Culture -- App. Chronology of Political Events, 1990-1995, Annotated with Transnational Rara Band Activity |
| Summary |
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions |
| Notes |
One CD-ROM in pocket attached to inside back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246), discography (pages 246-248), videography (page 248), and index |
| Performer |
All tracks on sound recording recorded in Haiti by Elizabeth McAlister, except tracks 5, 14, and 18, which were recorded by Verna Gillis 1976-1978; and originally released on Caribbean revels (Smithsonian Folkways) in 1978 as Folkways 4531 |
| Event |
Recorded 1993 |
| Notes |
Vocal works sung in Creole |
| Subject |
Music -- Haiti.
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Vodou music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
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Carnival -- Haiti.
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Rara Festival -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
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Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
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Folk songs, Creole -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
Haiti -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121363 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Haiti -- Social conditions -- 1971- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058371
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| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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| Author |
Gillis, Verna, compiler
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| LC no. |
2001005016 |
| ISBN |
0520228227 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520228235 paper alkaline paper |
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