Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 298 ISBN: 0472070967 "Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering. With a mix of Nuyorican, Cuban, Haitian, Kenyan, Senegalese, Trinidagonian, and Brazilian beats, Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World proves that the pleasures of poly-rhythm belong to the realm of the discursive as well as the sonic and the kinesthetic."---Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater, Yale University"As necessary as it is brilliant, Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World dances across, beyond, and within the Black Atlantic Diaspora with the aplomb and skill befitting its editors and contributors."---Mark Anthony Neal, author of Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul AestheticAlong with linked modes of religiosity, music and dance have long occupied a central position in the ways in which Atlantic peoples have...
