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Title The African diaspora : a musical perspective / edited by Ingrid Monson
Edition 1st pbk. ed
Published New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 366 pages)
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.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Black people -- Music -- History and criticism
Music -- Africa -- History and criticism
MUSIC -- Ethnomusicology.
Black people -- Music
Music
Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia)
ISBN 0203493052
9780203493052
9786610057535
6610057532
9780415967693
0415967694