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Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro's groundbreaking work traces the central - and contested - role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price-Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, Munro shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Different Drummers
• Subtitle: Rhythm and Race in the Americas
• Author: Martin Munro
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780520262829
• ISBN: 0520262824
• ID: 04617922
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2010

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