Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban Latin and salsa to disco and rap, is neo-African. This book shows how the popular music of the Americas is involved in a devotion to an African religious worldview that survived the ravages of slavery and found its way into the rit…
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Examines the significance of religion to popular music. This gives an overview of research in the area, and argues that popular songs frequently draw from and "interpret" themes, found in the conceptual and linguistic worlds of the major religions and reveal underlying attitudes…