Roots in Reverse: Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism - Couverture souple

Shain, Richard M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081957709X ISBN 13 : 9780819577092

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 2018

Synopsis

A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity

Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many dimensions of that nation's cultural history such as gender relations, generational competition and conflict, debates over cosmopolitanism and hybridity, the role of nostalgia in Senegalese national culture and diasporic identities. More than just a new form of musical enjoyment, Afro-Cuban music provided listeners with a tool for creating a public sphere free from European and North American cultural hegemony.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RICHARD M. SHAIN teaches African, Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Thomas Jefferson University. He also taught at the university level in Nigeria and Senegal for nearly ten years.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081957709X
• ISBN 13: 9780819577092
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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