Part I. Early writings -- The future of Cuban witchcraft -- Afro-Cuban cabildos -- Part II. Instrument essays -- Makuta -- Ararâa drums -- The Chekerâe, âAgbe, or Aggèuâe -- The conga -- Part III. Ethnographic essays -- Kongo traditions -- The religious music of black Cuban Yoru…
"Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditio…
"Rites, Rights & Rhythms traces traditional Afro-Colombian currulao music from colonial slavery to today's black social movement. The book illuminates a history of struggles over the music's meanings, portraying one of the hemisphere's most important black cultures, and offering…
Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perfor…
Exploring the cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santeria, Hagedorn argues that constructions of race and gender, politics and the economics of tourism have blurred boundaries between the sacred and the folkloric.
Compact disc includes twenty recordings of Afro-Cuban folkloric performances, many from field recordings made by the author.
Compact disc includes twenty recordings of Afro-Cuban folkloric performances, many from field recordings made by the author.
