Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780197549551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

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Recenzje

At once broad in its conceptual reach and ethnographically focused on the practices of selected performing ensembles, Juan Diego D'iaz's Africanness in Action illuminates varieties and degrees of sedimentation of an essentialized 'Africa' in Afro-Bahian music. Combining attention to discourse and rhetoric with detailed musical analysis, the author unveils the multiple truths of influence, invention, self-definition and aspiration. This important and timely book will appeal to all who are interested in the practical reception of 'African music' by creators who possess the rights of heritage to extend its purview.

O autorze

Juan Diego Díaz is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Davis. Prior to UC Davis, Díaz held posts as a lecturer at the University of Ghana and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Essex, the latter funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The funded research investigates the music of the descendants of freed enslaved Africans who resettled from Brazil to Ghana, Togo, and Benin during the nineteenth century. This research has produced a book called Tabom Voices: A History of the Ghanaian Afro-Brazilian Community in Their Own Words (2016) and the documentary film Tabom in Bahia (2017), documenting the visit of a Ghanaian master drummer to Bahia, Brazil. His articles appear in journals such as Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Analytical Approaches to World Music, and Latin American Music Review.