African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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256 p, Spotlights the religious performance practices that influence many popular and folk music traditions throughout the Caribbean and the Americas, as well as globally. Myriad styles of music–including rumba, salsa, latin jazz, and hip-hop–have their roots in the religious performance traditions of the African diaspora.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
92 p, Investigates the power of stories told within Caribbean dancehall music and culture that present “good reasons” that are adopted by members of that culture. Shows that dancehall stories reveal powerful ideological frames that “naturalize” ways of being within Caribbean dancehall culture. Various relationships between “good reasons” presented in lyrical stories and the adoption of these “good reasons” by participants in their own stories emerged as well.
