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African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective
Editor: Monson, Ingrid
Series#:3; Critical and Cultural Musicology; Hardback; Book 448 pages Published: November 2000 Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN: 0815323824
In eleven original essays, the contributors address why music claims such pried of place in the African diasporic population, and to provide particular examples of the interweaving of the local and global in the lives of musicians and their audiences.This volume presents musical case studies from various regions of the African diaspora, including Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and Europe, discussing their relation to race, gender, politics, and nationalism.

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