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Gage Averill

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey

Popular Music and Power in Haiti

306 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings  6 x 9  © 1997
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226032917   Published June 1997

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226032924   Published June 1997

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ISBN: 9780226032931

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Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation
1: Introduction: "A Message to Pass from Mouth to Mouth"
2: "Living from Their Own Garden": The Discourse of Authenticity
3: "Konpa-direk for Life": Francois Duvalier's Dictatorship and Konpa-direk
4: "Musicians Are a Single Family": Critical Discourse in Music under Baby Doc Duvalier
5: "Watch Out for Them!": Dechoukaj and Its Aftermath
Epilogue: "Carnival of Hope"
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Discography
Interviews
Index
Subjects


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