ISBN:
9780253223371
,
9780253356543
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 161 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
Ethnomusicology multimedia
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
781.62/96972986
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
;
Musik
;
Tambú (Music) History and criticism
;
Blacks Music
;
History and cricism
;
Music Social aspects
;
Blacks Rites and ceremonies
;
Musik
;
Musikethnologie
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze
;
Curaçao
;
Curaçao
;
Schwarze
;
Musik
;
Curaçao
;
Schwarze
;
Musikethnologie
;
Curaçao
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú, Nanette de Jong discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. De Jong recounts the personal stories and experiences of Afro-Curaçaoans as they perform Tambu–some who complain of its violence and low-class attraction and others who champion Tambú as a powerful tool of collective memory as well as a way to imagine the future.
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