Different Drummers - Rhythm and Race in the Americas (Hardcover)

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin MunroOCOs groundbreaking work traces the centralOCoand contestedOCorole of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price-Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aim(r) C(r)saire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, Munro shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World hist

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Music of the African Diaspora, 14
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	July 2010
Authors:	Martin Munro
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-26282-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-26282-4
Barcode:	9780520262829

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