Listening for Africa freedom, modernity, and the logic of Black music's African origins
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press
2017.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009664720806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war
- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record
- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism
- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time
- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents
- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.
