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Creolized aurality : Guadeloupean gwoka and postcolonial politics

Camal, Jerome, author

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In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music - a secular, drum-based tradition - captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island's decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, J r me Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple--and often seemingly contradictory--cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are \"creolized auralities\" - expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality.

• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Subject: Popular music Guadeloupe History and criticism. / Popular music Political aspects Guadeloupe. / Postcolonialism and music Guadeloupe.
• ISBN: 9780226631639, 022663163X, 9780226631776, 022663177X

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ML3486.G8 C36 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE