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Gunderson reviews The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective edited by Ingrid Monson.
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The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective
The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective. Edited by Ingrid Monsoii. (Critical and Cultural Musicology, 3.) New York: Routledge, 2003. [vii, 366 p. ISBN 0-8153-2382-4. $50 (hbk.); ISBN 04159-6769-4. $19.95 (pbk.).] Music examples, illustrations, map, bibliography, index.
This volume presents eleven musical case studies from diverse regions of the African diaspora, including the African continent, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe. The contributors intersect their discussions with the topics of race, gender, politics, and nationalism, and address why music claims such pride of place, using examples ...See the full content of this document
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