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Secular Devotion - Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Paperback) Loot Price: R730
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Secular Devotion - Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Paperback): Timothy Brennan

Secular Devotion - Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Paperback)

Timothy Brennan

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Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core involved a longing for earlier eras--ones that pre-dated the technological discipline of labor forced on captive populations by the European occupiers. In this groundbreaking new book, Timothy Brennan shows how the popular music of the Americas--the music of entertainment, nightlife, and leisure--is involved in a devotion to an African religious worldview that survived the ravages of slavery and found its way into the rituals of everyday listening. In doing so he explores the challenge posed by Afro-Latin music to a world music system dominated by a few wealthy countries and the processes by which Afro-Latin music has been absorbed into the imperial imagination.

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Imprint: Verso Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: October 2008
First published: October 2008
Authors: Timothy Brennan
Dimensions: 234 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-291-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General
Books > Music > General
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LSN: 1-84467-291-3
Barcode: 9781844672912

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