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12. 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.
13. Witnessing forced internal displacement in Colombia through vallenato music
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rodríguez Quevedo,Diana, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2013
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Song and social change in Latin America.Pages: 123-150.(AN: 2013-02135).
- Notes:
- In Colombia, armed conflict, exacerbated by the war on drugs and the effects of neoliberal economic policies, has forced Afro-Colombian communities in the Chocó region off their land. The author studies the lyrics of a collection of vallenato songs that affirm the identity of the displaced of Chocó and help create solidarity and consciousness about their struggle. She explains the ideological roots of the armed conflict between the state military, the guerilla groups, and the paramilitary units of Colombia. She also describes the displacement she believes is caused by specific economic development projects resulting from 21st-century free-trade agreements between North America and Colombia. She analyzes how the villanato songs bring visibility to an otherwise invisible group of displaced peoples.