Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora /

Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Rara Festival > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Vodou music > Haiti > History and criticism.
Folk music > Haiti > History and criticism.
Folk songs, Creole > Haiti > History and criticism.
Rara (Fête) > Chants et musique > Histoire et critique.
Musique vaudoue > Haïti > Histoire et critique.
Chansons folkloriques créoles > Haïti > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Holidays (non-religious)
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Folk music
Folk songs, Creole
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Vodou music
Haiti > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Haiti > Social conditions > 1971-
Haïti > Conditions sociales > 1971-
Haiti
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing rara
  • Work and play, pleasure and performance
  • Vulgarity and the politics of the small man
  • Mystical work : spirits on parade
  • Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti
  • Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare
  • Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity
  • Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture.

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