Black Rhythms of Peru Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific

Name: Black Rhythms of Peru Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
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ISBN: 9780819568151

ISBN-10: 0819568155

ISBN-13: 9780819568151

Edition: 2006

Authors: Heidi Feldman, Heidi Feldman

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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,…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Staging Cultural Memory in the Black Pacific



The Criollo Nostalgia of Jose 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