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Since the 1960s African Americans, Latinos, and Caucasian Americans have been traveling abroad to Africa, South America, Haiti, and the Caribbean Islands, in search of connections to African roots. Along the way many have turned to and accepted alternative forms of religious pra…

This is a sociohistorical study of the ascendancy of bàtá drumming within the complex of òrìsà worship in Cuba. Òrìsà worship on the island nation is a religious tradition originating from the contemporary geographical regions of southwestern Nigeria and the southeastern portion…