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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.
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The African Diaspora CRITICAL AND CULTURAL MUSICOLOGY VOLUME 3 Critical and Cultural Musicology MARTHA FELDMAN, Series Editor Associate Professor of Music University of Chicago ADVISORY BOARD Kofi Agawu, Ruth Solie, Gary Tomlinson, Leo Treitler Music and the Cultures of Print edited by Kate van Orden The Arts Entwined Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century edited by Marsha L.Morton and Peter L.Schmunk The African Diaspora A Musical Perspective edited by Ingrid Monson Between Opera and Cinema edited by Jeong won Joe and Rose Theresa Music, Sensation, and Sexuality edited by Linda Austern Music and Marx Ideas, Practice, Politics edited by Regula Burckhardt Quershi The African Diaspora A Musical Perspective EDITED BY INGRID MONSON ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK • LONDON Published in 2003 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 www.routledge-ny.com Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE www.routledge.co.uk Copyright © 2000 by Ingrid Monson First Hardback Edition, 2000 First Paperback Edition, 2003 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The African Diaspora: a musical perspective/edited by Ingrid Monson. p. cm.—(Critical and cultural musicology; v.3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8153-2382-4 (hb) 0-4159-6769-4 (pb) 1. Blacks-Music-History and criticism. 2. Music-Africa-History and Critcism. I. Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia) ML3760.1.A37 2003 780′.89'9621—dc21 99–045341 Cover: Photograph of Oumou Sangare by Lucy Durán. Used by permission. Veit Erlmann’s essay “Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity” adapted from Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination by Veit Erlmann, copyright © 1999 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-203-49305-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-57893-7 (Adobe eReader Format) Contents Series Editor’s Foreword Martha Feldman 1. Introduction Ingrid Monson vii 1 PART I TRAVELING MUSIC AND MUSICIANS 2. Jazz Performance as Ritual: The Blues Aesthetic and the African Diaspora Travis A.Jackson 21 3. Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity Veit Erlmann 83 4. Jazz on the Global Stage Jerome Harris 101 PART II BEYOND TRADITION OR MODERNITY 5. Women, Music, and the “Mystique” of Hunters in Mali Lucy Durán 136 6. Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in Maninnka Music 187 of Kankan, Guinea (1935–45) Lansiné Kaba and Eric Charry 7. Concepts of Neo-African Music as Manifested in the 207 Yoruba Folk Opera Akin Euba 8. They Just Need Money: Goods and Gods, Power and 241 Truth in a West African Village Steven Cornelius vi PART III CONTRADICTORY MOMENTS 9. Militarism in Haitian Music Gage Averill and Yuen-M