Garcia Listening for Africa

Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7311-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

David F. Garcia examines the work of a wide range of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists between the 1930s and the 1950s to show how their belief in black music's African roots would provide the means to debunk racist ideologies, aid decolonization of Africa, and ease racial violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garcia, David F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Analyzing the African Origins of Negro Music and Dance in a Time of Racism, Fascism, and War 21
2. Listening to Africa in the City, in the Laboratory, and on Record 74
3. Embodying Africa against Racial Oppression, Ignorance, and Colonialism 124
4. Disalienating Movement and Sound from the Pathologies of Freedom and Time 173
5. Desiring Africa, or Western Civilization's Discontents 221
Conclusion. Dance-Music as Rhizome 268
Notes 277
Bibliography 323
Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

David F. Garcia is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music.