Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism (Music/culture Ser.)

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Synopsis
A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernityRoots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many dimensions of that nation's cultural history such as gender relations, generational competition and conflict, debates over cosmopolitanism and hybridity, the role of nostalgia in Senegalese national culture and diasporic identities. More than just a new form of musical enjoyment, Afro-Cuban music provided listeners with a tool for creating a public sphere free from European and North American cultural hegemony.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
214 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780819577108
Related ISBNs:
9780819577092
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Wesleyan University Press
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts
Reading Age:
18 and up
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Bookshare Staff
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