Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.
Contents:
Performing the nation : musical constructions of Haitian cultural identity -- The politics of musical ethnography : Jean Price-Mars and the ethnological movement -- Recombinant mythology and the alchemy of memory : Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines -- Africans and Arawaks : the music of Ludovic Lamothe and Justin Elie -- Visions of vodou in African American operas about Haiti : Ouanga and Troubled Island -- Ethnography and music ideology : the music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber -- Epilogue : roots music and cultural memory.
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