David F. Garcia

Listening for Africa: Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins

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Produktbeschreibung

David F. Garcia examines the work of a wide range of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists between the 1930s and the 1950s to show how their belief in black music's African roots would provide the means to debunk racist ideologies, aid decolonization of Africa, and ease racial violence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363705
• ISBN-10: 0822363704
• Artikelnr.: 46877556

Autorenporträt

David F. Garcia

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Analyzing the African Origins of Negro Music and Dance in a Time of
Racism, Fascism, and War  21
2. Listening to Africa in the City, in the Laboratory, and on Record  74
3. Embodying Africa against Racial Oppression, Ignorance, and Colonialism 
124
4. Disalienating Movement and Sound from the Pathologies of Freedom and
Time  173
5. Desiring Africa, or Western Civilization's Discontents  221
Conclusion. Dance-Music as Rhizome  268
Notes  277
Bibliography  323
Index  345