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Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora

Author: Elizabeth A McAlister
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : CD audio : Music : Folk music : State or province government publication   Sound Recording : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: CD-ROMs
Chants et musique
Material Type: Government publication, Music, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Sound Recording, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth A McAlister
ISBN: 0520228227 9780520228221 0520228235 9780520228238
OCLC Number: 47863158
Description: xviii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Contents: Introducing rara --
Work and play, pleasure and performance --
Vulgarity and the politics of the small man --
Mystical work : spirits on parade --
Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti --
Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare --
Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity --
Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture.
Responsibility: Elizabeth McAlister.
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