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Michael Largey

Vodou Nation

Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism

256 pages, 5 halftones, 28 musical examples  6 x 9  © 2006
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Cloth $60.00

ISBN: 9780226468631   Published May 2006

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226468655   Published May 2006

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Orthography
Introduction: Performing the Nation: Musical Constructions of Haitian Cultural Identity
1. The Politics of Musical Ethnography: Jean Price-Mars and the Ethnological Movement
2. Recombinant Mythology and the Alchemy of Memory: Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines
3. Africans and Arawaks: The Music of Ludovic Lamothe and Justin Elie
4. Visions of Vodou in African American Operas about Haiti: Ouanga and Troubled Island
5. Ethnography and Music Ideology: The Music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber
Epilogue: Roots Music and Cultural Memory
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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