The cultural work : Maroon performance in Paramaribo, Suriname

The cultural work : Maroon performance in Paramaribo, Suriname /

"How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of Corinna Campbell's fascinating study The Cultural Work, which illustrates how the Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves) of Suriname, on the nor...

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Main Author: Campbell, Corinna, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2020
Series:Music/culture.
Subjects:
Maroons > Suriname > Paramaribo > Music > History and criticism.
Folk music > Suriname > Paramaribo > History and criticism.
Folk dancing > Suriname > Paramaribo > History.
Maroons > Suriname > Paramaribo > Social life and customs.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Ambivalent Forms
  • Cultural Groups as Interpretive Communities
  • Awasa : An Integrated Analysis
  • Alakondre Dron : Embodying Multiethnic Discourse
  • The Avondvierdaagse : Civic Exercise in a Consumer Society
  • Subversive Choreographies : Strategic Impositions on an Archetypal Image
  • Closing the Night : Invitations to Participation
  • Appendix A. Maroon Genres and a Comparative Table of the Cultural Groups Kifoko, Saisa, and Fiamba
  • Appendix B. List of Group Members Mentioned in the Text.

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