Roots in reverse Senegalese Afro-Cuban music and tropical cosmopolitanism / Richard M. Shain.
| Author/creator | Shain, Richard M., 1949- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2018] |
| Description | xxvii, 210 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Music/Culture Music/culture. ^A390481 |
| Contents | Introduction : Sound track for a Black Atlantic -- Kora(son) : Africa and Afro-Cuban music -- Havana/Paris/Dakar : Itineraries of Afro-Cuban music -- Son and sociality : Afro-Cuban music, gender, and cultural citizenship, 1950s-1960s -- From Sabor to Sabar : The rise of Senegalese Afro-Cuban orchestras, 1960s-1970s -- ReSONances senegalaises : Authenticity, cosmopolitanism, and the rise of Salsa M'balax, 1980s-1990s -- "Music has no borders" : The global marketing of a local msucial tradition, 1990s-2006 -- Conclusion : Making waves. |
| Abstract | Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the negritude 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. -- Page [4] of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical and discographical references (pages 189-205) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018023906 |
| ISBN | 9780819577085 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780819577092 paperback ; alkaline paper |