Ebook: Rites, rights and rhythms: a genealogy of musical meaning in Colombia's black pacific

Rites, Rights & Rhythms traces traditional Afro-Colombian currulao music from colonial slavery to today's black social movement. The book illuminates a history of struggles over the music's meanings, portraying one of the hemisphere's most important black cultures, and offering a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.;Cover; Series; Rites, Rights & Rhythms; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; A Note on Images; Introduction; 1. The Sounded Poetics of the Black Southern Pacific; 2. Music in the Mines: Black Cosmopolitans and Musical Practice in the Colonial Southern Pacific; 3. Modernities and Nonmodernities in Black Pacific Music; 4. Race, Region, Representativity, and the Folklore Paradigm; 5. Between Legibility and Alterity: Black Music and Self-​Making in the Age of Ethnodiversity; Conclusion; References; Index