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

Contributor(s): Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1995; Garland reference library of the humanities. Critical and cultural musicology ; ; v. 3.Publisher: London ; New York : Garland Pub, 2000Description: viii, 366 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0815323824; 9780815323822.Subject(s): Blacks -- Music -- History and criticism | Music -- Africa -- History and criticism | Music: styles & genres | Africa | Theory of music & musicology | Regional studies | MusicDDC classification: 780.8996 MON Summary: This volume presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, discussing their relation to race, gender, politics, and nationalism.
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The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music. Featured here are jazz, wassoulou music, and popular and traditional musics of the Caribbean and Africa, framed with attention to the reciprocal relationships of the local and the global.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

This volume presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, discussing their relation to race, gender, politics, and nationalism.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • The African Diaspora (p. ix)
  • Chapter 1 Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part I Traveling Music and Musicians (p. 21)
  • Chapter 2 Jazz Performance as Ritual: the Blues Aesthetic and the African Diaspora (p. 23)
  • Chapter 3 Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity (p. 83)
  • Chapter 4 Jazz on the Global Stage (p. 103)
  • Part II Beyond Tradition or Modernity (p. 135)
  • Chapter 5 Introduction (p. 137)
  • Chapter 6 Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in Maninnka Music of Kankan, Guinea 1935-45) (p. 187)
  • Chapter 7 Concepts of Neo-African Music as Manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera (p. 207)
  • Chapter 8 They Just Need Money: Goods and Gods, Power and Truth in a West African Village (p. 243)
  • Part III Contradictory Moments (p. 265)
  • Chapter 9 Militarism in Haitian Music (p. 267)
  • Chapter 10 Musical Revivals and Social Movements in Contemporary Martinique: Ideology, Identity, Ambivalence (p. 295)
  • Chapter 11 Art Blakey's African Diaspora (p. 329)
  • Index (p. 357)

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CHOICE Review

The musical cultures of Africa are so articulate that acculturation does not remove ethnic fingerprints: the music will change but it retains its basic features. The 11 essays in this collection do not exhaust the potential coverage of this subject, but they certainly exemplify various manifestations, with explorations into jazz, the Caribbean, and cultural changes in Africa. The series editor tersely expounds the concept of "new musicology" in the opening paragraph of the foreword, and this definition is in place for what follows. A few articles are summaries and syntheses, and some are based on original research. Akin Euba's discussion of Yoruba musical theater exemplifies both approaches; Euba's own work in the genre (chaka) was issued on CD in 1999. Editor Monson (Washington Univ., St. Louis) contributes the only essay specific to an individual (Art Blakey), though she presents him within a social and geographical frame; the work of many figures enters into the topical treatments. For specialists in the field, graduate students through professionals. D.-R. de Lerma; Lawrence University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ingrid Monson is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction and numerous articles that have appeared in scholarly journals. She lives in St. Louis, MO.