The cultural work : Maroon performance in Paramaribo, Suriname /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campbell, Corinna, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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.
Danse folklorique > Suriname > Paramaribo > Histoire.
Folk dancing
Folk music
Maroons > Social life and customs
Suriname > Paramaribo
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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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