After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti

ISBN-13: 9780190928063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 488 str.

Rebecca Hope Dirksen

Recenzje

The comprehensive breadth of After the Dance makes it an important contribution to the discourse on Caribbean carnival and the politics of music. Educators looking to incorporate this work into their classroom readings will find plenty of worthy material to select from, as this book's ambitiousness gives it the feeling of an edited volume more than a monograph...Dirksen's work will successfully engage a wide range of readers through its well-crafted ethnographic narrative, which brings together a chorus of Haitian voices sounding their own stories, along with her voice to provide the historical and cultural context so that we can truly listen.

O autorze

Rebecca Dirksen is an ethnomusicologist working across the spectrum of musical genres in Haiti and its diaspora. Her research concerns cultural approaches to development, crisis, and disaster; sustainability, diverse environmentalisms, and ecomusicology; and applied/engaged/activist scholarship. She is a professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington and a founding member of the Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team (DERT).