| Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical Visions for a New Republic Contributor(s): Hurley-Glowa, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1648250211 ISBN-13: 9781648250217 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - Music | Individual Composer & Musician - History | Africa - West |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2020056219 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.38 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on twenty years of collaborative fieldwork, Songs for Cabo Verde: Norberto Tavares's Musical Visions for a New Republic focuses on the musician Norberto Tavares but also tells a larger story about postcolonial nation building, musical activism, and diaspora life within the Lusophone sphere. It follows the parallel trajectories of Cabo Verdean independence and Tavares's musical career over four decades (1975-2010). Tavares lived and worked in Cabo Verde, Portugal, and the United States, where he died in New Bedford, Massachusetts at age fifty-four. Tavares's music serves as a lens through which we can view Cabo Verde's transition from a Portuguese colony to an independent, democratic nation, one that was shaped in part through the musician's persistent humanitarian messages. |