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Subjects:

Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
Voodoo music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Haiti -- Music.
Haiti -- Social life and customs.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.

ISBN:

0226468631 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226468658 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

61295923

Publisher Number:

9780226468631