Black Rhythms of Peru (eBook)

Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific

Heidi Feldman (Autor)

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2023
328 Seiten
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
9780819500977 (ISBN)

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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 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 Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and Perú 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."

Autor

HEIDI CAROLYN FELDMAN is a lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Staging Cultural Memory in the Black Pacific
The Criollo Nostalgia of José Durand
Cumanana and the Ancestral Memories of Victoria Santa Cruz
The Peruvian Negritud of Nicomedes Santa Cruz
Peru Negro and the Canonization of Black Folklore
The Legend of Chincha
Susana Baca, Immigrant Nostalgia, and the Cosmopolitan Soul of Black Peru
Conclusion: Beginnings
Glossary
Notes
References
Discography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: African-American Studies • Latin American & Caribbean Studies • music
• ISBN-13: 9780819500977 / 9780819500977