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The African diaspora : a musical perspective

Author: Ingrid T Monson
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2003.
Series: Critical and cultural musicology.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ingrid T Monson
ISBN: 0415967694 9780415967693
OCLC Number: 51914412
Notes: Originally published: New York; London: Garland, 2000.
Description: viii, 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Part 1: Traveling music and musicians: 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 state / Jerome Harris : Part 2: Beyond tradition or modernity --
Women, music, and the "mystique" of hunters in Mali / Lucy Durán --
Mamaya: renewal and tradition in Maninnka music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-45) / Lansiné Kaba and Eric Charry --
Concepts of Neo-African music as manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera / Akin Euba --
They just need money: good and gods, power and truth in a West African village / Steven Cornelius --
Part 3: Contradictory moments --
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.
Series Title: Critical and cultural musicology.
Responsibility: edited by Ingrid Monson.

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