Title: Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora /
Authors: McAlister, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Rara Festival Songs and music History and criticism.; Vodou music Haiti History and criticism.; Vodou music Haiti.; Folk music Haiti History and criticism.; Folk songs, Creole Haiti History and criticism.; Folk songs, Creole Haiti.; Folk music Haiti; Haiti Social life and customs; Music Haiti.; Haiti Social conditions
Abstract: Sound disc contains: songs performed by Rara bands.
Contents: Introducing rara -- Work and play, pleasure and performance -- Vulgarity and the politics of the small man -- Mystical work : spirits on parade -- Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti -- Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare -- Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity -- Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture.