Listening for Africa : : freedom, modernity, and the logic of Black music's African origins / / David F. Garcia.
In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2017. |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war
- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record
- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism
- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time
- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents
- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.