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2. A hundred years of choral music in Latin America: 1908-2008
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Guinand,María, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: The Cambridge companion to choral music.Pages: 130-148.(AN: 2012-10720).
- Notes:
- An overview of choral activity in Latin America, including cathedrals, missions (particularly Jesuit missions), and musical centers such as the Escuela de Chacao in Venezuela and the Escola Mineira in Brazil. The 20th century witnessed a renaissance of choral music, along with the development of national conservatories and a variety of choral institutions. A regional survey highlights some of the activities in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico; the Caribbean region, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic; and the Andean region, including Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chili, and Uruguay. Composers have been inspired by the burgeoning choral ensembles, writing music that may use contemporary compositional techniques, popular music, folk music, as well as arranging popular music for choirs.
3. Black Britain and Its Antecedents
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hawley,John C. (Author) and Nair,Supriya M. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 113-130
4. Black Women Re-visioning American History: The Ghost as Alternative Epistemology in the Works of Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, and Michelle Cliff
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chassot,Joanne (Author), Coleman,Philip (Editor), Matterson,Stephen (Editor), Hummel,Carsten (Editor), McCarthy,Elizabeth (Editor), and Davies,Philip (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- 'Forever Young'? The Changing Images of America
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 183-195
5. From Otello to Porgy: Blackness, masculinity, and morality in opera
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- André,Naomi, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Blackness in opera: How race and blackness play out in opera.Pages: 11-31.(AN: 2012-00965).
- Notes:
- Around the beginning of the 20th century the codes for representing masculinity in opera began to change. This essay focuses on how the changing codes of masculinity in leading male roles are calibrated differently for white European characters and nonwhite characters with non-European ancestry (for example, African American, Caribbean, Moorish, or African) and shows how masculinity and heroism are brought together differently for black and non-black characters. The first section examines Giuseppe Verdi's Otello (1887) and focuses on a critical moment near the end of the opera that links orchestral developments in Italy at the end of the 19th century with the way Verdi dramatizes Otello's vicious murder of Desdemona. A broader overview considers four operas written in the first half of the 20th century: Berg's Wozzeck (1925), Krenek's Jonny spielt auf (1927), Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935), and Britten's Peter Grimes (1945). Two of these operas (Wozzeck and Peter Grimes) feature white European title characters, while the other two feature African American protagonists.
6. Intimate Arrangements: Race, Sex, and the English Nation in Andrea Levy's Small Island
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Poon,Angelia (Author), Gwynne,Joel (Editor), and Poon,Angelia (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Amherst, NY: Cambria
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sexuality and Contemporary Literature
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 127-145
7. La voie de Chabela: Trajectoire d'une figure du candombe afro-uruguayen
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Biermann,Clara (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Musiques au monde: La tradition au prisme de la création.Pages: 47-66.(AN: 2012-11352).
- Notes:
- Chabela Ramírez, the black singer and activist born in Montevideo in 1958, is a singular personality of candombe, the only multi-form Afro-Uruguayan musical genre. Retracing her trajectory leads us through the history of Uruguay's black community (10% of the total population) and candombe, with particular attention on how this musical expression went from devalued practice to national heritage in a country deeply marked by a Eurocentric ideology. Ramírez founded and gave voice, with Afrogama, the choir and dance group that she leads, to a unique aesthetic thought that brought meaning to candombe via the field of Afro-religions (Umbanda and Batuque).
8. Natural Disaster, Cultural Memory: Montserrat Adrift in the Black and Green Atlantic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gough,Kathleen M. (Author), Arons,Wendy (Editor), May,Theresa J. (Editor), and Heim,Wallace (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Readings in Performance and Ecology
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 101-112
9. Playmates of the Caribbean: Taking Hollywood, Making Hard-Core
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hines,Claire (Author), Hines,Claire (Editor), and Kerr,Darren (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- London, England: Wallflower
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Hard to Swallow: Hard-Core Pornography On Screen
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 126-144
10. Potent crossroads: Where U2 and progressive awareness meet
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Seiler,Rachel E., (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Exploring U2: Is this rock 'n' roll? Essays on the music, work, and influence of U2.Pages: 38-53.(AN: 2012-00001).
- Notes:
- Crossroads populate religious and folkloric beliefs all around the world. Stories of an intersection of dimensions, as well as of roads where a guardian-trickster deity awaits to carry human desires to the gods, are widely encountered in European, Caribbean, and West African lore (as well as the legends formed around blues and rock stars). The symbolism of the crossroads speaks directly to one's innate recognition of a charged metaphorical space; a space that is liminal, betwixt-and-between. This notion of the crossroads serves as inspiration for examining the relationship between U2's music and listeners' progressive political awareness—the marriage of critical consciousness and action for social justice and change. To this end, an in-depth study is carried out of six listeners' experiences at the potent crossroads of their developing progressive awareness and their encounters with U2's music.
11. The Clash: London calling (1979)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fournier,Karen, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: The album: A guide to pop music's most provocative, influential, and important creations.Vol.3: Adding punk attitude to the mix, 1974-1988.Pages: 159-164.(AN: 2012-13294).
- Notes:
- The third album by the Clash, London calling captured the zeitgeist of its time with references to various domestic and international news items that had captured the attention of Joe Strummer (née John Mellor) and Mick Jones as they composed the songs. Many seek to represent the state of Britain in the late 1970s, where an inflation rate of 25 percent and high unemployment fueled anger at the government and sparked attacks on minorities who were blamed for taking jobs that might otherwise have employed Britons. The album tackles such issues as racial disharmony, police brutality, unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, and the sense of alienation felt by many working-class youths and contextualized these social ills in a broader international frame with references to similar political and social crises in Spain, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
12. The Philippines, Latin America, and Spain
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Clark,Walter A., (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Nineteenth-century choral music.Pages: 449-471.(AN: 2012-10629).
- Notes:
- Much of the music literature of churches in the Philippines was destroyed during World War II, particularly in Manila. Marcelo Adonay (1848–1928) was one of the major figures in Philippine music of the 19th century European traditions and styles of choral music prevailed in Latin America; however, the period of 1810 to 1830 witnessed efforts towards independence from Spain in many areas, including music. Unfortunately, this independence weakened some of the institutions that supported and produced music, including the church. A brief survey is provided of sacred, theatrical, and civic choral music (the major venues, composers, organizations, works, and developments) in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Venezuela, the Andes region, the Rioplatense region, Brazil, and Spain.
13. The Pirate Ship as a Black Atlantic Heterotopia: Michel Maxwell Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ganser,Alexandra (Author), Eckhard,Petra (Editor), Rieser,Klaus (Editor), and Schultermandl,Silvia (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Vienna, Austria: Lit
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Contact Spaces of American Culture: Globalizing Local Phenomena
- Journal Title Details:
- pp. 51-75
14. Trovador of the Black Atlantic: Laba Sosseh and the Africanization of Afro-Cuban music
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Shain,Richard M., (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Music and globalization: Critical encounters.Pages: 135-156.(AN: 2012-00337).
- Notes:
- Unedited] The career of Laba Sosseh, the Senegambian singer of Afro-Cuban music, challenges many of the dominant paradigms of world music' research. His music was not the product of Western influence nor was Sosseh shaping his music to please elite Western audiences. Sosseh instead sought to Cubanize African popular music and Africanize new world Latin music. He was active in several West African music centers in the 1960s and 1970s and New York in the 1980s. He was the first musician reportedly to have a gold record in West Africa and his recordings for a U.S. Cuban-owned company circulated widely throughout the Caribbean Basin. In the 1990s, Sosseh returned to Dakar, Senegal, to mentor a new generation of Senegalese Latin musicians. By looking at Sosseh’s life on both sides of the Atlantic, it becomes clear that world music can come from unexpected places in unanticipated ways. Sosseh’s music had its roots in a South-South dialogue that underscored cultural difference and local identities. His work demonstrates that globalization does not inherently produce global homogeneity. Non-western communities can deploy communication technologies (records, radio and cassettes) to create forms of counter-globalization that rather than promote Western cultural hegemony resist it.