Africanness in Action
Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil
Series: Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 August 2021
- ISBN 9780197549568
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 155x231x17 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 65 Images 107
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Short description:
In Africanness in Action, author Juan Diego Díaz examines musicians' agency, constructions of blackness and Africanness, musical structure, performance practices, and rhetoric in Brazil, and provides a model for the study of African-derived music in other diasporic locales.
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When many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba and, more importantly, essentialized notions about Africa which have been fueled over centuries of contact between the "West," Africa, and the African diaspora. These notions, of course, tend to reduce and often portray Africa and the diaspora as primitive, exotic, and monolithic.
In Africanness in Action, author Juan Diego Díaz explores this dynamic through the perspectives of Black musicians in Bahia, Brazil, a site imagined by many as a diasporic epicenter of African survivals and purity. Black musicians from Bahia, Díaz argues, assert Afro-Brazilian identities, promote social change, and critique racial inequality by creatively engaging essentialized tropes about African music and culture. Instead of reproducing these notions, musicians demonstrate agency by strategically emphasizing or downplaying them.
Di´&az (ethnomusicology, Univ. of California, Davis) is to be commended for this thought-provoking contribution to literature on Brazil. The author raises a pertinent question about the term "Africanness," commonly used by scholars when discussing the remnant or extension of African influence in the cultural fabric of Brazil
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. Bahia as an Epicenter of African Diasporic Culture
2. Redeeming the Study of African Essentialism
3. Orkestra Rumpilezz: A Big Band Playing Percussion
4. Orkestra Rumpilezz: Complications of African Rhythm
5. Orquestra Afrosinfônica: The Africanization of Erudite Music
6. The Nzinga Berimbau Orchestra: Performances of Bantu Heritage
7. The Tuned Berimbaus of OBADX: Melodic Performances of Africanness
Conclusion: Lessons from Essentialism
