Marie-Galante is a small island situated in the Caribbean to the
south of Guadeloupe. The majority of Marie-Galantais are
descendants of the slave era, though a few French settlers also
occupy the island. Along with its neighbours Guadeloupe and
Martinique, Marie-Galante forms an official departement of France.
Marie-Galante historically has never been an independent polity.
Marie-Galantais express sentiments of being 'deux fois colonise',
or twice colonized, concomitant with their sense of insularity from
a global organization of place. Dr Ron Emoff translates this
pervasive sense of displacement into the concept of the
'non-nation'. Musical practices on the island provide
Marie-Galantais with a means of re-connecting with other
significant distant places. Many Marie-Galantais display a
'split-subjectivity', embracing an African heritage, a French
association and a Caribbean regionalism. This book is unique, in
part, with regard to its treatment of a particular mode of
self-consciousness, expressed musically, on a virtually forgotten
Caribbean island. The book also combines literary, narrative,
historical and musical sources to theorize a postcolonial
subsurreal in the French Antilles. The focus of the book is upon
kadril dance and gwo ka drumming, two prevalent musical practices
on the island with which Marie-Galantais construct unique
perceptions of self in relation, specifically, to Africa and
France. Based on several extended periods of ethnographic research,
the book evokes unique Marie-Galantais views on tradition,
historicity, esclavage, nationalism (and its absence) and the local
significance of occupying a globally out-of-the-way place. The book
will be of interest not only to ethnomusicologists, but also to
those interested in cultural and linguistic anthropology,
postcolonial studies, performance studies, folklore and Caribbean
studies.
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