Beltran, Luis Ramiro (author / Information Sciences Representative in Latin America, International Development Research Centre, Colombia) and Information Sciences Representative in Latin America, International Development Research Centre, Colombia
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1976-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04883
Notes:
Paper presented at the 1975 Advanced Summer Seminar of the East-West Communication Institute, In: Chu, Godwin C.; Rahim, Syed A.; and Kincaid, D. Lawrence, eds. Communication for group transformation in development. [s.l.] : East-West Communication Institute, 1976. p. 217-249
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36145
Notes:
Pages 59-66 in K.A. Dikshit, I. Boden, C. Donkor, S. Bonzon, H. Bernal Alarcon, J. Kostal and G. Powell, Rural radio: programme formats. Monographs on Communication Technology and Utilization 5, UNESCO, Paris, France. 94 pages.
Portuguese and Spanish slavers supplied the Americas with "los Negros," the Blacks. Only those young and strong, impervious to European disease and able to withstand months of torturous living packed in the cruel quarters of slave shipholds survived the middle passage. Those who arrived, stunned and malnourished, lost in a foreign land, were easy prey to the slavers. Removed from a world that had nourished them, left to the mercy of those whose own lack of humanity prevented the recognition of theirs, they were utterly dependent and at the mercy of their captors. Vestiges of racism threaten to dismantle further progress in South America, as they do here. The prophecies of Willie Lynch, a slave owner who created a divisive plan to keep Blacks separate by fostering dissent among them, are coming true. Lynch outlined the differences in physical characteristics among the slaves-skin shade, hair texture, height, etc. By playing up these differences, Lynch promised, "The Black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands." Throughout North and South America, Lynch's plan lives on. Color lines rule, with the predominantly European strains remaining in power, and those of darker skin and crisper hair texture continue to be oppressed. It is a chilling reality that echoes down from the brutal suppression of the native peoples of Chiapas to the continued repression of Mexicans here and in their own country, to the harsh discrimination shown the Blacks of Brazil and America.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
526 p, "This dissertation is about musical meaning, specifically referring to the musical practices of black people in Colombia's southern Pacific coast which are imbricated within a number of different systems of meaning. It begins by examining the ritual, social, and spatial uses of music in the Pacific, before pulling apart this cluster of practices to reveal a web of rival forms of sociality and overlapping belief systems from which modern Pacific music originated."
