Creolized Aurality

Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics

Jerome Camal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-63177-6 (ISBN)

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In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music--a secular, drum-based tradition--captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island's decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, J r me Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple--and often seemingly contradictory--cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are "creolized auralities"--expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality.

J r me Camal is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-63177-X / 022663177X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-63177-6 / 9780226631776
Zustand	Neuware