Vodou nation : Haitian art music and cultural nationalism / Michael Largey
| Author(s): | Largey, Michael D., 1959- |
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| Subjects: | Folk music--Haiti--History and criticism Vodou music--Haiti--History and criticism African Americans--Haiti--Music Haiti--Social life and customs |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
| Series: | Chicago studies in ethnomusicology |
| LC Classification: | M, ML |
| Table of Contents: | Introduction : performing the nation : musical constructions of Haitian cultural identity 1 1. The politics of musical ethnography : Jean Price-Mars and the ethnological movement 23 2. Recombinant mythology and the alchemy of memory : Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines 61 3. Africans and Arawaks : the music of Ludovic Lamothe and Justin Elie 97 4. Visions of vodou in African American operas about Haiti : Ouanga and Troubled Island 147 5. Ethnography and music ideology : the music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber 186 Epilogue : roots music and cultural memory 231 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2005023830 ISBN: 0226468631 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0226468658 (pbk. : alk. paper) EAN: 9780226468631 Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index Contents: Performing the nation : musical constructions of Haitian cultural identity -- The politics of musical ethnography : Jean Price-Mars and the ethnological movement -- Recombinant mythology and the alchemy of memory : Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines -- Africans and Arawaks : the music of Ludovic Lamothe and Justin Elie -- Visions of vodou in African American operas about Haiti : Ouanga and Troubled Island -- Ethnography and music ideology : the music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber -- Epilogue : roots music and cultural memory |
| Physical Description: | xv, 283 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 61295923 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0226468631 0226468658 9780226468631 |