Summary
The book's chapters offer detailed analyses, ranging over the landmark 1956 performance at the Lima Municipal Theater of Pancho Fierro company, "usually cited as the first major staging of Black Peruvian music and dance in the 20th century"; the rise of Afro-Peruvian theater in the 1960s and 1970s under the lead of choreographer Victoria Santa Cruz; the work of her brother, the poet Nicomedes Santa Cruz; the Peru Negro dance and music company, a key institution in the movement based in Lima; the 1990s "discovery" of singer Susana Baca in the United States; and a short overview of a new generation of AfroPeruvian artists.
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Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific
BLACK RHYTHMS OF PERU: REVIVING AFRICAN MUSICAL HERITAGE IN THE BLACK PACIF...
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