African Diaspora | A Musical Perspective | Ingrid Monson | Taylor & Fr

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|19 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

PART I Traveling Music and Musicians

chapter 2|62 pages

Jazz Performance as Ritual: The Blues Aesthetic and the African Diaspora

chapter 3|18 pages

Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity

chapter 4|34 pages

Jazz on the Global Stage

part |1 pages

PART II Beyond Tradition or Modernity

chapter 5|51 pages

Women, Music, and the “Mystique” of Hunters in Mali

chapter 6|20 pages

Mamaya: Renewal and Tradition in Maninnka Music of Kankan, Guinea 1935–45)

chapter 7|34 pages

Concepts of Neo-African Music as Manifested in the Yoruba Folk Opera

chapter 8|21 pages

They Just Need Money: Goods and Gods, Power and Truth in a West African Village

part |1 pages

PART III Contradictory Moments

chapter 9|27 pages

Militarism in Haitian Music

chapter 10|34 pages

Musical Revivals and Social Movements in Contemporary Martinique: Ideology, Identity, Ambivalence

chapter 11|24 pages

Art Blakey’s African Diaspora