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Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz
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Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core invo
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Paperback, 290 pages
Published
October 17th 2008
by Verso
(first published October 6th 2008)
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Dec 10, 2008
Naeem
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it was amazing
Recommends it for:
joel, sara-maria, Steph, Julie, Anne, Rebecca T., Sue, and those for whom music is IT.
Shelves:
favorite-books-of-a-lifetime,
music-books
June, 2010:
Brennan was in town today but I missed his talk. I would have asked him to sign my copy of his book.
This is one of the best books I have read in really long time. It ranks right up there with John Miller Chernoff's work.
The individual chapters are gems -- mini-books unto themselves. Together the chapters don't live up to the promises of the introduction, but then how could they? The introduction is among the most powerful 14 pages I have read.
Brennan's contribution is to say in cle ...more
Brennan was in town today but I missed his talk. I would have asked him to sign my copy of his book.
This is one of the best books I have read in really long time. It ranks right up there with John Miller Chernoff's work.
The individual chapters are gems -- mini-books unto themselves. Together the chapters don't live up to the promises of the introduction, but then how could they? The introduction is among the most powerful 14 pages I have read.
Brennan's contribution is to say in cle ...more
Tim was my undergraduate advisor but only after completing my masters in Latin American studies (and reading this book) did I realize the resource once available to me. This book is for Western audiences, as it takes aim at what constitutes a cultural canon in the West as well as the Western disjointed geography of culture that views Latin America as distinct from the United States- when a fundamental commonality is Afro-Descendants and their cultural production. For non-academics who can get pa
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“It is not simply as release or play, in other words, that popular music saves society from its routine murders; it is not just relief from the long day's work or the joy that comes from cutting loose or the affirmation of community that makes it attractive, although all of these play their parts. In the Americas, popular music is a mission and strategy to recover the deep theoretical roots that extend far into the past and constitutes nothing less an alternative history of Western civilization.”
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