Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 234 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Noten
ISBN:
9780226631806
Series Statement:
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Content:
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music—a secular, drum-based tradition—captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island’s decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, Jérôme Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple—and often seemingly contradictory—cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are “creolized auralities”—expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Online Resources -- Introduction / Listening for (Post)colonial Entanglements -- One / The Poetics of Colonial Aurality -- Two / Building an Anticolonial Aurality: Gwoka modènn as Counterpoetics -- Three / Discrepant Creolizations: Music and the Limits of Hospitality -- Four / Diasporic or Creole Aurality? Aesthetics and Politics across the Abyss -- Five / Postnational Aurality: Institutional Detour and the Creolization of Sovereignty -- Coda / Bigidi -- Acknowledgments -- Basic Gwoka Rhythms -- Notes -- Discography -- Bibliography -- Index
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226631639
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226631776
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Camal, Jerome Creolized aurality Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 ISBN 9780226631639
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226631776
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Guadeloupe
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Postkolonialismus
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Unterhaltungsmusik
DOI:
10.7208/9780226631806
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
