Roots in Reverse - Senegalese Afro-Cuban Music and Tropical Cosmopolitanism

Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the n¿itude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many dimensions of that nation¿s cultural history such as gender relations, generational competition and conflict, debates over cosmopolitanism and hybridity, the role of nostalgia in Senegalese national culture and diasporic identities. More than just a new form of musical enjoyment, Afro-Cuban music provided listeners with a tool for creating a public sphere free from European and North American cultural hegemony.

About the author

RICHARD M. SHAIN teaches African, Caribbean and Latin American Studies at Thomas Jefferson University. He also taught at the university level in Nigeria and Senegal for nearly ten years.

Product details

• Authors: Richard M Shain, Richard M. Shain
• Publisher: University press new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9780819577092
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7709-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Music/Culture; Music/Culture; Music / Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous