| Creolized Aurality: Guadeloupean Gwoka and Postcolonial Politics Contributor(s): Camal, Jérôme (Author) |
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ISBN: 022663177X ISBN-13: 9780226631776 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
| Dewey: 781.629 |
| LCCN: 2018051860 |
| Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music--a secular, drum-based tradition--captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island's decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, J r me Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple--and often seemingly contradictory--cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are "creolized auralities"--expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Camal, Jerome: - Jérôme Camal is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |