In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate--and to some extent recreate--Black culture in Peru. In this groundbreaking study of the Afro-Peruvian revival and its aftermath, Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the "Black Pacific," a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America's Pacific coast. Feldman's "ethnography of remembering" traces the memory projects of charismatic Afro-Peruvian revival artists and companies, including Jos Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and Per Negro, culminating with Susana Baca's entry onto the global world music stage in the 1990s. Readers will learn how Afro-Peruvian music and dance genres, although recreated in the revival to symbolize the ancient and forgotten past, express competing modern beliefs regarding what constitutes "Black Rhythms of Peru."

Item Information Item Information

Format: TradePaperback
Author: Feldman, Heidi
ISBN: 9780819568151
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.93
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Year: 2007

Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific

Available Offers

Overview

Customer Reviews