"The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans
Knelt before Chopin's Heart" is not your usual musical scholarship.
In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to
commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's death. This
service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is
kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express
their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to
Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch
novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this
book, based on notes he took while living on Curacao from 1993 to
2002.
Anyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean
music and music history will be amply rewarded with this
Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of
creolization. On Curacao, the history and legacy of slavery shaped
culture and music, affecting all the New World. Brokken's portraits
of prominent Dutch Antillean composers are interspersed with
cultural and music history. He puts the Dutch Caribbean's
contributions into a broader context by also examining the
nineteenth-century works by pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk from
New Orleans and Manuel Saumell from Cuba. Brokken explores the
African component of Dutch Antillean music--examining the history
of the rhythm and music known as "tambu" as well as American jazz
pianist Chick Corea's fascination with the tumba rhythm from
Curacao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch
Caribbean adaptations of European dance forms have shifted from a
classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz."
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