Vodou nation
Subtitle: Haitian art music and cultural nationalism
By: Michael Largey.
Series: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism; Voodoo music -- Haiti -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Haiti -- Music; Haiti -- Social life and customs
Genres: Music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing the nation : musical constructions of Haitian cultural identity; title: The politics of musical ethnography : Jean Price-Mars and the ethnological movement; title: Recombinant mythology and the alchemy of memory : Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines; title: Africans and Arawaks : the music of Ludovic Lamothe and Justin Elie; title: Visions of vodou in African-American operas about Haiti : Ouanga and Troubled Island; title: Ethnography and music ideology : the music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber; title: Epilogue : roots music and cultural memory.