Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in

Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific (Music / Culture)
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Winner of the IASPM's Woody Guthrie Award (2007)

In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrateâ€•and to some extent recreateâ€•Black culture in Peru. In this groundbreaking study of the Afro-Peruvian revival and its aftermath, Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the "Black Pacific," a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America's Pacific coast. Feldman's "ethnography of remembering" traces the memory projects of charismatic Afro-Peruvian revival artists and companies, including JosÃ© Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and PerÃº Negro, culminating with Susana Baca's entry onto the global world music stage in the 1990s. Readers will learn how Afro-Peruvian music and dance genres, although recreated in the revival to symbolize the ancient and forgotten past, express competing modern beliefs regarding what constitutes "Black Rhythms of Peru."
Country USA
Brand Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer Wesleyan University Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 52 b&w illustrations
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780819568151
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Wesleyan University Press
Manufacturer	Wesleyan University Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	52 b&w illustrations
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780819568151
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific (Music / Culture)

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