Bibliograph

Roots in reverse, Senegalese Afro-Cubanmusic and tropical cosmopolitanism, Richard M. Shain

Type

Label

Roots in reverse, Senegalese Afro-Cubanmusic and tropical cosmopolitanism, Richard M. Shain

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Roots in reverse

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Richard M. Shain

Series statement

Music/culture

Sub title

Senegalese Afro-Cubanmusic and tropical cosmopolitanism

Summary

A study of the impact of Cuban music on Senegalese music and modernity Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the négritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many dimensions of that nation's cultural history such as gender relations, generational competition and conflict, debates over cosmopolitanism and hybridity, the role of nostalgia in Senegalese national culture and diasporic identities. More than just a new form of musical enjoyment, Afro-Cuban music provided listeners with a tool for creating a public sphere free from European and North American cultural hegemony

Target audience

adult

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