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Vodou Nation

Author : Michael Largey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226468658
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Vodou Nation written by Michael Largey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship, the nation’s troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States is more intensely experienced through its art music, which combines French and German elements of classical music with Haiti's indigenous folk music. Vodou Nation examines art music by Haitian and African American composers who were inspired by Haiti’s history as a nation created by slave revolt. Around the time of the United States’s occupation of Haiti in 1915, African American composers began to incorporate Vodou-inspired musical idioms to showcase black artistry and protest white oppression. Together with Haitian musicians, these composers helped create what Michael Largey calls the “Vodou Nation,” an ideal vision of Haiti that championed its African-based culture as a bulwark against America’s imperialism. Highlighting the contributions of many Haitian and African American composers who wrote music that brought rhythms and melodies of the Vodou ceremony to local and international audiences, Vodou Nation sheds light on a black cosmopolitan musical tradition that was deeply rooted in Haitian culture and politics.

The Spirits and the Law

Author : Kate Ramsey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226703819
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Spirits and the Law written by Kate Ramsey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual practices. To find out, Kate Ramsey begins with the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Fearful of an independent black nation inspiring similar revolts, the United States, France, and the rest of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive Haitian governments, seeking to counter the image of Haiti as primitive as well as contain popular organization and leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, “superstitious practices.” While not often strictly enforced, these laws were at times the basis for attacks on Vodou by the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority. At the same time, she examines the ways communities across Haiti evaded, subverted, redirected, and shaped enforcement of the laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thoroughly dissects claims that the religion has impeded Haiti’s development.

Nation Dance

Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253338358
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Nation Dance written by Patrick Taylor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book’s three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora. The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner’s voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.

Vodou Nation

Author : Brett Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Vodou Nation written by Brett Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the research into the making and production of the play, "Vodou Nation" by Brett Bailey.

Eccentric Nation

Author : Stephen Albert Rohs
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0838641385
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Eccentric Nation written by Stephen Albert Rohs and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book takes as its point of departure the notion that a nation's music and performance culture was, in the nineteenth century, conceived of as the voice of its people. From ballads to parades to plays to orations, these cultural forms carried the burden of staging an identity for the national community and for the onlooking eyes of outsiders.

The Voodoo Encyclopedia

Author : Jeffrey E. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610692098
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Voodoo Encyclopedia written by Jeffrey E. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling reference work introduces the religions of Voodoo, a onetime faith of the Mississippi River Valley, and Vodou, a Haitian faith with millions of adherents today. Unlike its fictional depiction in zombie films and popular culture, Voodoo is a full-fledged religion with a pantheon of deities, a priesthood, and communities of believers. Drawing from the expertise of contemporary practitioners, this encyclopedia presents the history, culture, and religion of Haitian Vodou and Mississippi Valley Voodoo. Though based primarily in these two regions, the reference looks at Voodoo across several cultures and delves into related religions, including African Vodu, African Diasporic Religions, and magical practices like hoodoo. Through roughly 150 alphabetical entries, the work describes various aspects of Voodoo in Louisiana and Haiti, covering topics such as important places, traditions, rituals, and items used in ceremonies. Contributions from scholars in the field provide a comprehensive overview of the subject from various perspectives and address the deities and ceremonial acts. The book features an extensive collection of primary sources and a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources.

Vodou Visions

Author : Sallie Ann Glassman
Publisher : Garrett County Press
ISBN 13 : 1939430143
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Vodou Visions written by Sallie Ann Glassman and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to Vodou's rich history, powerful ancestors, and vibrant spirits, known as Lwa. With more than one hundred breathtaking illustrations, Vodou Visions reveals how to honor and invoke the Lwa with specific ceremonial offerings and litanies. Using methods drawn from more than twenty years of practice, Vodou priestess Sallie Ann Glassman shares purification and empowerment rituals for individuals, communities, homes and spiritual spaces.

Healing in the Homeland

Author : Margaret Mitchell Armand
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739173626
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Healing in the Homeland written by Margaret Mitchell Armand and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the sociocultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haïtian national division. Supported by scholarships of indigenous studies and current analysis, she elucidates how a false consciousness can be overcome to reclaim cultural identity and pride, and include a sociocultural, national educational program, and political platform that embraces traditional needs in a global context of mutual respect. While shredding the western adages, and within an indigenous model of understanding, this book purposefully brings forth the struggle of the African people in Haïti.

Postcolonial Gateways and Walls

Author : Daria Tunca
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004337687
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Gateways and Walls written by Daria Tunca and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the ‘gateway’ and the ‘wall’ – both literal and metaphorical – to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies, a dynamic discipline that may itself be seen as permanently ‘under construction’.

The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination

Author : Philip Kaisary
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813935482
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination written by Philip Kaisary and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) reshaped the debates about slavery and freedom throughout the Atlantic world, accelerated the abolitionist movement, precipitated rebellions in neighboring territories, and intensified both repression and antislavery sentiment. The story of the birth of the world’s first independent black republic has since held an iconic fascination for a diverse array of writers, artists, and intellectuals throughout the Atlantic diaspora. Examining twentieth-century responses to the Haitian Revolution, Philip Kaisary offers a profound new reading of the representation of the Revolution by radicals and conservatives alike in primary texts that span English, French, and Spanish languages and that include poetry, drama, history, biography, fiction, and opera. In a complementary focus on canonical works by Aimé Césaire, C. L. R. James, Edouard Glissant, and Alejo Carpentier in addition to the work of René Depestre, Langston Hughes, and Madison Smartt Bell, Kaisary argues that the Haitian Revolution generated an enduring cultural and ideological inheritance. He addresses critical understandings and fictional reinventions of the Revolution and thinks through how, and to what effect, authors of major diasporic texts have metamorphosed and appropriated this spectacular corner of black revolutionary history.

Vodou in Haitian Memory

Author : Celucien L. Joseph
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498508359
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Vodou in Haitian Memory written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou in Haitian Memory examines the idea and representation of the Haitian Vodou in Haitin history, art, painting, aesthetics, and culture. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

Nations and Nationalism [4 volumes]

Author : Guntram H. Herb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851099085
Total Pages : 2204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Nations and Nationalism [4 volumes] written by Guntram H. Herb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 2204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and revealing compilation of essays analyzing the varied dimensions of national identities and nationalisms across world regions and through time. The pervasiveness of nationalism, its many manifestations over the centuries, and the widely scattered way it has been studied make it a particularly difficult subject to approach and explore. ABC-CLIO offers the finest comprehensive reference available on an essential topic in modern world history. Across four volumes, Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview covers all aspects of nationalism, in all parts of the world, from the time of the French Revolution to the present day. Nations and Nationalism helps students, researchers, and other interested readers explore national identities and nationalistic movements in historical context. Organized chronologically, its four volumes combine thematic essays on different characteristics of nationalism with case studies of key historical developments involving specific nations at specific times. The encyclopedia focuses on Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, with featured coverage of nationalist cultural creations, including literature, music, symbols, and mythologies.

Shackled Sentiments

Author : Eric Montgomery
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149858599X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Shackled Sentiments written by Eric Montgomery and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora is the first comprehensive ethnographic and historical study of slavery and its outcomes in numerous geographic contexts. The contributors to this collection traverse region, theme, and time to construct a book of great scale and scope.

Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture

Author : C. Michel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312376200
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture written by C. Michel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection introduces readers to the history and practice of the Vodou religion, and corrects many misconceptions. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, where it has its strongest following, examining its influence on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art.

Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain

Author : William Washabaugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317134869
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain written by William Washabaugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain explores the efforts of the current government in southern Spain to establish flamenco music as a significant patrimonial symbol and marker of cultural identity. Further, it aims to demonstrate that these Andalusian efforts form part of the ambitious project of rethinking the nation-state of Spain, and of reconsidering the nature of national identity. A salient theme in this book is that the development of notions of style and identity are mediated by social institutions. Specifically, the book documents the development of flamenco's musical style by tracing the genre's development, between 1880 and 1980, and demonstrating the manner in which the now conventional characterization of the flamenco style was mediated by krausist, modernist, and journalist institutions. Just as importantly, it identifies two recent institutional forces, that of audio recording and cinema, that promote a concept of musical style that sharply contrasts with the conventional notion. By emphasizing the importance of forward-looking notions of style and identity, Flamenco Music and National Identity in Spain makes a strong case for advancing the Spanish experiment in nation-building, but also for re-thinking nationalism and cultural identity on a global scale.

Callaloo Nation

Author : Aisha Khan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333883
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Callaloo Nation written by Aisha Khan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnalyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago./div

Africa and Its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas

Author : Tunde Adeleke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666940208
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Africa and Its Historical and Contemporary Diasporas written by Tunde Adeleke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through different disciplinary perspectives, the authors shed light on the rich and complex Africa-Black Diaspora world; revealing historical transformation and transmutations that continue to define and reshape what is undoubtedly a landscape of dizzying expansion, transformations, and complexities, if not contradictions.