Infectious Rhythm

Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-91981-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression.

The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent associations have been made between the AIDS pandemic and African diasporic cultural practices, including religious worship, music, dance, sculpture, painting, orature, literature and film. While pointing to the lengthy and complex history of the metaphor of African contagion, Browning argues that in its politicized, life-affirming embodiment, the figure might actually teach us to respond to epidemia humanely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Browning, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Babaluaiyé; Chapter 2 Compact World; Chapter 3 Lutte contre les moustiques; Chapter 4 African Medicine Men; Chapter 5 Voodoo Economics; Chapter 6 Mixing Bloods; Chapter 7 Cyberspace, Voodoo Sex, and Retroviral Identity; Chapter 8 Benetton; Chapter 9 Penetrable Selves (“;Paris Is Burning”); Chapter 10 The Closed Body; NOTES; INDEX;

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Browning is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Samba: Resistance in Motion.