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After the dance, the drum is heavy : carnival, politics, and musical engagement in Haiti / Rebecca Dirksen

Dirksen, Rebecca, ca. 20./21. Jh. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020

1 online resource (464 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 30, 2020)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: After the dance, the drums are heavy / Dirksen, Rebecca (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-092809-4 (ebook)

978-0-19-092805-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1152596271     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780190928056.001.0001

LC 87640      Ähnliche Literatur

306.48424097294

Basisklassifikation: 73.62 (Kunstethnologie; Musikethnologie)

*Haiti ; Musizieren ; Karneval      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Music -- Political aspects -- Haiti ; Carnival -- Haiti

Richly ethnographic, After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy is a study of carnival, politics, and the musical engagement of ordinary citizens and celebrity musicians in contemporary Haiti. The book explores how the self-declared president of konpa Sweet Micky (Michel Martelly) rose to the nation's highest office while methodically crafting a political product inherently entangled with his musical product. It offers deep historical perspective on the characteristics of carnivalesque verbal play-and the performative skillset of the artist (Sweet Micky) who dominated carnival for more than a decade-including vulgarities and polemics. Drawing on more than a decade and a half of ethnographic research, Rebecca Dirksen presents an in-depth consideration of politically and socially engaged music and what these expressions mean for the Haitian population.