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Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz

Autor Timothy Brennan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2008
Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban Latin and salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core involved a longing for earlier eras - ones that pre-dated the technological discipline of labor forced on captive populations by capitalism. In this groundbreaking new book, Timothy Brennan shows how the popular music of the Americas - the music of entertainment, nightlife, and leisure - is involved in a devotion to an African religious worldview that survived the ravages of slavery and found its way into the rituals of everyday listening. He explores the challenge posed by Afro-Latin music to Western cultural imperialism, and the processes by which Afro-Latin music has been absorbed into the imperial imagination: how what was originally the artistic creation of a colonized people was transformed overnight into proof of what was most liberating about the society that did the enslaving.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781844672912
ISBN-10: 1844672913
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 156 x 233 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: VERSO

Notă biografică

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. His books include At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and, most recently, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of the Left and Right. He writes for a number of journals, including New Left Review and The Nation.

Recenzii

“An amazing book. Afro-Latin music at the highest levels of discourse and imagination. Destined to become an abiding classic.”—Robert Farris Thompson

“If you’ve never read another music book or have yet to read a book about jazz, make this the one.”—Will Shapira, Jazz Notes

“A fine examination of the impact of African music and how music became what it is today”—Midwest Book Review