Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins /

Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins /

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David F. Garcia examines the work of a wide range of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists between the 1930s and the 1950s to show how their belief in black music's African roots would provide the means to debunk racist ideologies, aid decolonization of Africa, and ease racial violence.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: García, David F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Music.
Dance music.
Black people > Music.
African Americans > Music.
MUSIC > Ethnomusicology.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
Musique > Afrique > Histoire et critique.
Danse, Musique de > Histoire et critique.
Personnes noires > Musique > Histoire et critique.
Music > Africa > History and criticism.
Dance music > History and criticism.
Black people > Music > History and criticism.
African Americans > Music > History and criticism.
Africa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war
  • Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record
  • Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism
  • Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time
  • Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents
  • Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.

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