Music and the performance of identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles / Ron Emoff.

Author/creator Emoff, Ron
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Descriptionxv, 194 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, music ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSOAS musicology series
SOAS musicology series. ^A581180
Contents Introduction : an out-of-the-way island -- Tradition and official versions of history -- Aimé Césaire, language, and the subsurreal -- Gwo ka drumming and claiming a sound place -- Being/not being French : Kadril -- Mayoleur, the festival stage, Rastafarianism -- Conclusion : histories within histories.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index.
LCCN 2008020001
ISBN9780754665656 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754665658 (alk. paper)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML3565 .E56 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold