Awakening Spaces
French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture
302 pages, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 5 musical examples 6 x 9
©
2000
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Cloth $54.00
ISBN: 9780226044552
Published June 2000
Paper $22.00
ISBN: 9780226044569
Published June 2000
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Safe Space: Malavoi's Nostalgic Songs of Childhood and Exile 2. Creole, Zouk, and Identity in Kassav's Optimistic Songs 3. More Than a Doudou: Women's Subversive Songs 4. Cultural Politics and Black Resistance as Sites of Struggle 5. Public Performance, Marketing Devices, and Audience Reception 6. The Recontextualization of Urban Music 7. A Deferential Space for the Drum: The Ambivalence of a Cultural Voice Epilogue Notes Bibliography Discography List of Interviews Index
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