Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World Rituals and Remembrances

• Other Authors: Diouf, Mamadou (Editor), Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press 2010
• Subjects: Music; Go Go music; black popular culture; Caribbean music; salsa; Afro-Cuban music; Haitian culture; African hip hop
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Along with linked modes of religiosity, music and dance have long occupied a central position in the ways in which Atlantic peoples have enacted, made sense of, and responded to their encounters with each other. This unique collection of essays connects nations from across the Atlantic---Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, among others---highlighting contemporary popular, folkloric, and religious music and dance. By tracking the continuous reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal traces, the contributors to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World collectively argue that music and dance are the living evidence of a constant (re)composition and (re)mixing of local sounds and gestures.