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2. Concert and dance: The foundations of black jazz in South Africa between the twenties and the early forties
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ballantine,Christopher, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Jazz.Pages: 475-500.(AN: 2011-21316).
- Notes:
- A reprint of the article abstracted as RILM ref]1991-03701/ref].
3. Modernity, agency, and sexuality in the pagode baiano
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Lima,Ari, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 2011-01-01
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Examines a variation of samba called pagode baiano in several peripheral neighborhoods of the city of Salvador. Dance parties organized around this genre provide the context for the affirmation of a racial identity discourse as well as the reterritorialization of 'easy women', 'dishonest and lazy people', jobless people, homosexuals, and blacks. Pagode reintegrates aspects of traditional African manifestations found in Brazil, such as dance, call-and-response song, and the emphasis on polyrhythm. It embraces a sub-altern gender (feminine) and sexuality (homosexual) and undermines the hegemony of the macho. It exists as a musical experience whose feelings are particular and shared amongst certain subjects. Musicians and the public share a language and a way of speaking about themselves and others that reveal an emergent, imperfect citizenship.
4. My song: A memoir
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Belafonte,Harry, (Author) and Shnayerson,Michael, (Collab.)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Published:
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- A personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America's greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists. Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and the resilient spirit of the Caribbean lifestyle instilled in him a tenacity to face the hurdles of life head-on and channel his anger into positive, life-affirming actions. He returned to New York City after serving in the Navy in World War II, and found his calling in the theater, before transitioning into a career as a singer and Hollywood leading man. During the 1960s civil rights movement, Belafonte became close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr., and used his celebrity as a platform for his activism in civil rights and countless other political and social causes. This book tells the inspiring story of an original and powerful entertainer who has always engaged fiercely with the issues of his day.
5. The natural mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Grant,Colin, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Published:
- New York: W.W. Norton
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- The definitive group biography of the Wailers—Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Livingston—chronicling their rise to fame and power and offering a portrait of a seminal group during a period of exuberant cultural evolution. Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers—one of the most influential groups in popular music. A history of the band is presented from their upbringing in the brutal slums of Kingston to their first recordings and then international superstardom. It is argued that these reggae stars offered three models for black men in the second half of the 20th century: accommodate and succeed (Marley), fight and die (Tosh), or retreat and live (Livingston). The author meets with Rastafarian elders, Obeah men, and other folk authorities as he attempts to unravel the mysteries of Jamaica's famously impenetrable culture and to offer a sophisticated understanding of Jamaican politics, heritage, race, and religion.
6. The routes and roots of danzón: A critique of the history of a genre
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Malcomson,Hettie, (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May; May, 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Popular music
- Journal Title Details:
- 30(2) : 263-278
- Notes:
- Examines the history of a genre that spans several continents and several centuries. Material from Mexico, Cuba, France, and Great Britain are brought together to create anew, expand upon, and critique the standard histories of danzón narrated by Mexico's danzón experts and others. In these standard histories, origins and nationality are key to the constitution of genres that are racialized and moralized for political ends. Danzón, its antecedents, and successors are treated as generic equivalents despite being quite different. From the danzón on, these genres are positioned as being the products of individual, male originators and their nations. Africa is treated as a conceptual nation, and Africanness as something extra that racializes hegemonic European music-dance forms. Political leanings and strategies determine whether these music-dance forms are interpreted, adopted, or co-opted as being black or white.
7. Tradition as adventure: Black music, new Afro-descendant subjects, and pluralization of modernity in Salvador da Bahia
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pinho,Osmundo de Araújo, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Section
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Collected Work: Brazilian popular music and citizenship.Pages: 250-266.(AN: 2011-04563).
- Notes:
- Examines aspects related to the plural constitution of Afro-descendants informed by black discursiveness in Salvador, Bahia. This discursiveness is strongly marked by the role of black music and by the history of Afro-descendant Carnaval. This essay shows that these subjects are a product of modernization and operate in it, while giving it a specific configuration. Social agents as reflexive audience play a decisive role in the review and criticism of such modernity, pluralizing it and pushing the boundaries of democracy and of representation politics, in their demand for recognition and changes. Music, as discursive production and as sociability experience, plays a key part in this process.
8. “Tropical mix”: Afro-Latino space and Notch’s reggaetón
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rivera,Petra R., (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May; May, 2011
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Popular music and society
- Journal Title Details:
- 34(2) : 221-235
- Notes:
- Examines how Connecticut-born reggaetón artist Notch incorporates oratorical, visual, and musical cues in his music video, Qué te pica (What's itching you?), to establish connections between Latino and Caribbean communities in the U.S. These communities have typically been disavowed by hegemonic racial categories that distinguish between them. While Notch’s music disrupts these particular racial hierarchies, he also maintains hetero-normative patriarchal relations in his video. An analytic, Afro-Latino space is proposed to account for the ways that reggaetón as a musical genre, and Notch more specifically, unsettle certain distinctions between blackness and Latinidad, while simultaneously relying on stereotypes of black hypermasculinity.