Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pa

Description: Rites, Rights and Rhythms by Michael Birenbaum Quintero Rites, Rights & Rhythms traces traditional Afro-Colombian currulao music from colonial slavery to todays black social movement. The book illuminates a history of struggles over the musics meanings, portraying one of the hemispheres most important black cultures, and offering a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nations margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombias majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and socialimportance.Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombias Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerousways it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perform the nation, to generate economic development and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these and other understandings of how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over the meanings of currulao that are also struggles over the meanings of blacknessin Colombia.Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, Rites, Rights & Rhythms asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historicalcontexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemispheres most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao. Author Biography Michael Birenbaum Quintero received his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Ethnomusicology at New York University. His research focuses on the music of the black inhabitants of Colombias Pacific coast region, cultural politics, violence and trauma, black cosmopolitanism, and vernacular uses of technology. He is Associate Professor of Music, Latin American Studies, and African American Studies at Boston University. Table of Contents ContentsAcknowledgementsAbout the CompanionWebsiteList of FiguresA Note on ImagesIntroduction1. The Sounded Poetics of the Black Southern Pacific2. Music in the Mines: Abject Cosmopolitans and Musical Practice in the Colonial Southern Pacific 3. Modernities and Non-Modernities in Black Pacific Music4. Race, Region, Representativity, and the Folklore Paradigm5. Between Legibility and Alterity : Black Music and Self-Making in the Age of EthnodiversityConclusionReferencesIndex Review This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. --Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival"Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with." --Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, AfricanAmerican Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois Long Description Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nations margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombias majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and socialimportance.Rites, Rights & Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombias Black Pacific is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perform the nation, to generate economic development and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these andother understandings of how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over the meanings of currulao that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia.Moving from the eighteenth century to the present, Rites, Rights & Rhythms asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich portrait of one of the hemispheres most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao. Review Text This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. --Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival"Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with." --Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, AfricanAmerican Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois Review Quote This wonderful ethnography is poignantly place-specific, meticulously aware of history, and convincingly post-structuralist as it reveals formations of blackness in never-ending processes of change, renovation, and reinvention within specific power configurations. --Jean Muteba Rahier, author of Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival "Rites, Rights, and Rhythms is a landmark study in ethnomusicology. It combines sensitive, profound ethnography with a depth of historical insight that is a model for scholars working in any area of the discipline. At the same time, it offers a perspective on the shifting philosophical and material investments in race over time in Colombia that scholars of music and modernity will need to grapple with." --Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music, African American Studies, and Anthropology, University of Illinois Feature Selling point: Brings a scholarly focus on Colombia, which has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world and has been understudied until recentlySelling point: The first book-length study of currulao music, an cultural expression of the black Americas, and an important figure through which black Colombians have been described by the nationSelling point: Uses both historical and ethnographic methods to trace the history of currulao musicSelling point: Offers a sense of the possibilities of and methodologies for historical ethnomusicology New Feature Contents Acknowledgements About the CompanionWebsite List of Figures A Note on Images Introduction 1. The Sounded Poetics of the Black Southern Pacific 2. Music in the Mines: Abject Cosmopolitans and Musical Practice in the Colonial Southern Pacific 3. Modernities and Non-Modernities in Black Pacific Music 4. Race, Region, Representativity, and the Folklore Paradigm 5. Between Legibility and Alterity : Black Music and Self-Making in the Age of Ethnodiversity Conclusion References Index Details ISBN0199913943 Series Currents In Latin American And Iberian Music Language English ISBN-10 0199913943 ISBN-13 9780199913947 Format Paperback Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Subtitle A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombias Black Pacific Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 781.6409861 Illustrations 22 Affiliation Bowdoin College Position Assistant Professor of Music Short Title Rites, Rights and Rhythms Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-12-21 UK Release Date 2018-12-21 NZ Release Date 2018-12-21 US Release Date 2018-12-21 AU Release Date 2018-12-31 Pages 344 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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