Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction--Ingrid Monson; 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 Dur n; Mayama: Renewal and Tradition in Manninka Music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-1945)--Lansin 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.
