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  • Rites, rights & rhythms : a genealogy of musical meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific
    Birenbaum Quintero, Michael
    Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways it has been used: to praise ... the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perform the nation, to generate economic development and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these and other understandings of how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over the meanings of currulao that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, Rites, Rights & Rhythms asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemisphere's most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.
    Type of material - book ; adult, serious
    Publication and manufacture - New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2019
    Language - english
    ISBN - 978-0-19-991392-3; 978-0-19-991394-7
    COBISS.SI-ID - 45805357

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Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana Ljubljana SAZU reading room 1 cop.
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