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Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil (Paperback)
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Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil (Paperback)
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Loot Price R414
Discovery Miles 4 140
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The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was
a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical
studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of
expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What
happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa
was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned
ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik considers African music and dance
forms as the products of people living in various African cultures
which have changed continuously in history, absorbing and
processing elements from inside and outside the continent, creating
new styles and fashions all the time. African diaspora music then
appears as a consequent and creative extension overseas of African
musical cultures that have existed in the period between the
sixteenth and the twentieth century. From this perspective African
diaspora music cannot be described adequately in terms of
"retentions" and "survivals," as if African cultures in the
Americas were doomed from the outset and perhaps only by some act
of mercy permitted to "retain" certain elements. Using field
research and documentary sources, Kubik tracks down some aspects of
the Angolan dimension in the panorama of African music and dance
cultures in Brazil, and also addresses methodology applicable in
the wider context of African diaspora cultural studies.
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