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Creolized aurality : Guadeloupean gwoka and postcolonial politics / Jérôme Camal.
Author
Camal, Jerome
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Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
©2019
Description
x, 234 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
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JME 19-396
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Popular music
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Guadeloupe
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History and criticism
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Popular music
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Political aspects
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Guadeloupe
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Postcolonialism and music
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Guadeloupe
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Series
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
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Summary note
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music - a secular, drum-based tradition - captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island's decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, Jerome Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple--and often seemingly contradictory--cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are "creolized auralities"--expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality.--Cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Listening for (post)colonial entanglements
The poetics of colonial aurality
Building an anticolonial aurality: gwoka modènn as counterpoetics
Discrepant creolizations: music and the limits of hospitality
Diasporic or creole aurality: aesthetics and politics across the abyss
Postnational aurality: institutional detour and the creolization of sovereignty
Coda. Bigidi.
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ISBN
9780226631639 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
022663163X
9780226631776 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
022663177X
LCCN
2018051860
OCLC
1051679026
Other standard number
40029360932
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N - S
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