Different Drummers - Rhythm and Race in the Americas

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26282-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Music of the African Diaspora

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price-Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, Munro shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munro, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Slaves to the Rhythm

1. Beating Back Darkness: Rhythm and Revolution in Haiti
2. Rhythm, Creolization, and Conflict in Trinidad
3. Rhythm, Music, and Literature in the French Caribbean
4. James Brown, Rhythm, and Black Power

Conclusion: Listening to New World History

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Munro is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Literatures at Florida State University.