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Parameters and Peripheries of Culture: Interpreting Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname (Music/Culture) - Softcover

Book 47 of 49: Music/Culture

Campbell, Corinna

 
9780819579553: Parameters and Peripheries of Culture: Interpreting Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname (Music/Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0819579556 ISBN 13: 9780819579553
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The politics & poetics of cultural representation in a multiethnic city

How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of The Cultural Work, which illustrates how the Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves) of Suriname and French Guiana, on the northern coast of South America, have used culture-representational performance to sustain their communities within Paramaribo, the capital. Focusing on three collectives known locally as "cultural groups," which specialize in the music and dance traditions of the Maroons, it marks a vital contribution to knowledge about the cultural map of the African diaspora in South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

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About the Author

Corinna Campbell received her PhD from Harvard University in 2012 and is assistant professor of music at Williams College.

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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0819579556
ISBN 13 
9780819579553
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
250