ISBN:
9780199913930
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Currents in Latin American and Iberian mMusic
Keywords:
Kolumbien
;
Schwarze
;
Soziale Situation
;
Volksmusik
Abstract:
Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation’s margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia’s majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and social importance. Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways that it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to demonstrate national heritage, to generate economic development, and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. The author draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these and other opinions about how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over its meanings that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia. Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, this book asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemisphere’s most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.
Abstract:
Cover -- Series -- Rites, Rights & Rhythms -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- A Note on Images -- Introduction -- 1. The Sounded Poetics of the Black Southern Pacific -- 2. Music in the Mines: Black Cosmopolitans and Musical Practice in the Colonial Southern Pacific -- 3. Modernities and Nonmodernities in Black Pacific Music -- 4. Race, Region, Representativity, and the Folklore Paradigm -- 5. Between Legibility and Alterity: Black Music and Self-Making in the Age of Ethnodiversity -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780199913923.001.0001
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