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Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
Heidi Carolyn Feldman
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paperback. How Afro-Peruvian music was forgotten and recreated in Peru. Num Pages: 328 pages, 58 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AV; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
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 celebrate-and to some extent recreate-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 José ... Read more
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 celebrate-and to some extent recreate-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 José ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819568151
SKU
V9780819568151
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About Heidi Carolyn Feldman
HEIDI CAROLYN FELDMAN is a lecturer in the Department of Communications at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviews for Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
"Brilliantly written, this book is valuable to everyone interested in how traditions are constantly reinvented and resignified." - Raul Romero, author of Debating the Past: Music, Memory and Identity in the Andes"