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Music and the performance of identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles

Title
Music and the performance of identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles / Ron Emoff.
Author
Emoff, Ron.
Publication
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009], ©2009.

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Description
xv, 194 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, music; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SOAS musicology series
Uniform Title
SOAS musicology series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780754665656 (alk. paper)
  • 0754665658 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008020001
  • 40016462763
OCLC
  • ocn227571816
  • 227571816
  • SCSB-9093253
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries