Vodou Nation
Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism
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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