African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective / Edition 1

by Ingrid Monson

Overview

The African Diaspora presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe, that engage with broader interdisciplinary discussions about race, gender, politics, nationalism, and music.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415967693
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/09/2003
Series:	Critical and Cultural Musicology , #3
Edition description:	First Paperback Edition
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ingrid Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University. She won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for the best book in American music for her 1996 Saying Something, Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. She was also a founding member of the nationally known Klezmer Conservatory Band, and plays trumpet with jazz and salsa bands. Monson previously was Associate Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis, and has taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard (as Visiting Professor), and University of Chicago. She has a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Musicology from NYU, and a B.M. from New England Conservatory. Monson is currently working on two books: one on the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on the history of jazz, and one on the musics of the African Diaspora.

Table of Contents

Introduction—Ingrid Monson; Jazz Performance as Ritual: The Blues Aesthetic and the African Diaspora—Travis A. Jackson; Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity—Veit Erlmann; Jazz on the Global Stage—Jerome Harris; Women, Music, and the Mystique of Hunters in Mali—Lucy Dur n; Mayama: Renewal and Tradition in Manninka Music of Kankan, Guinea (1935-1945)—Lansin Kaba and Eric Charry; Concepts of Neo-African Music as Manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera—Akin Euba; They Just Need Money: Goods and Gods, Power and Truth in a West African Village—Steven Cornelius; Militarism in Haitian Music—Gage Averill and Yuen-Ming David Yih; Musical Revivals and Social Movements in Contemporary Martinique: Ideology, Identity, Ambivalence—Julian Gerstin; Art Blakey's African Diaspora—Ingrid Monson.

Editorial Reviews

"The African Diaspora: A musical Perspective explores the relationship of music to the emergence of African Diaspora sensibilities in the late twentieth century in a nuanced and refreshing way, and will reward repeated readings. The volume will provide valuable insights to scholars who teach or conduct research in African/African Diaspora studies, anthropology, cultural criticism, or musicology." — Frank Gunderson, Florida State University,Notes

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