Infectious rhythm : metaphors of contagion and the spread of African culture /

Barbara Browning follows the trail of ""infectious rhythm"" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Browning, Barbara, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 1998.
Subjects:
Black people.
Culture diffusion.
Race relations.
Black People
Personnes noires.
Diffusion culturelle.
Relations raciales.
cultural diffusion.
Black people
Culture diffusion
Race relations
Online Access:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Table of Contents:
  • "Haiti is here / Haiti is not here"
  • Babaluaiye: Diaspora as pandemic
  • Compact world
  • Lutte contre les moustiques: The question of irony
  • African medicine men
  • Voodoo economics
  • Mixing bloods: The L.A. riots
  • Cyberspace, voodo sex, and retroviral identity
  • Benetton: Blood is big business
  • Penetrable selves ("Paris is burning")
  • The closed body.

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