Cabo Verdean Rhythms - Kola San Jon, Spatialization, and the Performance of Creolidade

Cabo Verdean Rhythms examines the rhythms, movements and performances of Kolá San Jon, a performative tradition central to Cabo Verde's festas juninas, as a lens for understanding the ongoing negotiations of social and cultural boundaries in Cabo Verde.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Enter the Garden of the Hesperides
Chapter 2: Performing Creolidade
Chapter 3: Barlavento Constellations
Chapter 4: Rhythms of Belonging
Chapter 5: San Jon Revoltiód
Chapter 6: The Walking Community
Chapter 7: The Weakness of San Jon
Chapter 8: Conclusion - The Rhythms of Kolá San Jon
References
Index

About the author

Martin Ringsmut is a postdoctoral University Assistant for Ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Ringsmut
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032895062
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289506-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: SOAS Studies in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Africa, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Non-Western music: traditional & "classical", Cape Verde;Rhythm;Festas Juninas;Kolá San Jon