AFA copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
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
Summary:
Highlighting the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences, this text sheds light on a black cosmopolitan musical tradition that was deeply rooted in Haitian culture and politics
