Ingrid Monson (ed.)

The African Diaspora

A Musical Perspective
Herausgeber: Monson, Ingrid

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780815323822
• ISBN-10: 0815323824
• Artikelnr.: 21623134

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.