The Garifuna Music Reader Contributor(s): Greene, Oliver N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 151651551X ISBN-13: 9781516515516 Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing OUR PRICE: $85.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnic - Music | Ethnomusicology |
Dewey: 780.899 |
LCCN: 2017568252 |
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 8" W x 10" (1.97 lbs) 454 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Garifuna Music Reader is the first text to provide scholarly research of all the principal genres of music and music-related rituals of the Garifuna people of Belize and, by similarities in practice and tradition, those of Central America and the United States. This five unit, fourteen chapter anthology explores how the Garifuna interpret their identity, experiences, and existence through traditional songs and dances, contemporary popular music, world music, ancestor rituals, a Christmas processional, and a creolized version of the Catholic mass. Oliver N. Greene holds a Ph.D. in musicology with an emphasis in ethnomusicology from Florida State University. He is an associate professor of music at Georgia State University where he teaches courses on world music, carnival traditions, and the history of American popular music. He has produced world music concerts, cultural festivals, and websites, and published articles in world music encyclopedias and journals. He has published chapters in Sun, Sea, and Sound: Music and Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean (2014) and The Garifuna, A Nation Across Borders: Essays in Social Anthropology (2006). As a recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center for Black Music Research, he conducted fieldwork on the relationships between art, dance, and music among the Garifuna. He also produced the documentary film Play, Jankun Play: The Wanaragua Ritual of the Garifuna of Belize (2007). |