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    1. Chocolate, coconut, and honey: Race, music, and the politics of hybridity in the Ecuadorian black Pacific

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ritter,Jonathan, (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011-01-01
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Popular music and society
    Journal Title Details:
    34(5) : 571-592
    Notes:
    Against the backdrop of a tremendous surge in ethnic identity politics and social movement organizing over the last two decades in Ecuador, two complementary musical trends are explored that have emerged in reference to the country's Afro-Ecuadorian population. The first showcases the traditional music and dance of the marimba as a symbol of Afro-Ecuadorian identity. The second features numerous popular music fusions of the marimba repertoire with genres including rock, salsa, reggaetón, and more, with broad appeal to audiences throughout the country and beyond.

    2. Claiming Caribbeanness in the Brazilian Amazon: Lambada, critical cosmopolitanism, and the creation of an alternative Amazon

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lamen,Darien, (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall; Fall-winter, 2013
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American music review/Revista de música latinoamericana
    Journal Title Details:
    34(2) : 131-161
    Notes:
    Located in the eastern Brazilian Amazon roughly three hours by boat from the open Atlantic, the port city of Belém do Pará has been an important point of convergence for transnational flows of commodities, people, and culture, including a vast array of up-tempo Caribbean dance genres known locally as lambada. Since the late twentieth century, inhabitants of Belém and surrounding areas have sought to make a virtue of their liminal position between the hegemonic centers of southeastern Brazil and the circum-Caribbean. This article shows how musicians, dancers, listeners, and culture brokers draw on the local history of Caribbean cosmopolitan musicality to articulate an alternative Amazonian regional identity, one characterized by connectedness and proximity to their Caribbean neighbors rather than by isolation and provincialism. In so doing, the article contributes to the remapping of the cultural contours of Brazil, the Caribbean, the Amazon, and Latin America.