Black Music Research Journal articles from March 22 1998

Black Music Research Journal archives from March 22 1998

THE JAZZ TINGE IN DOMINICAN MUSIC: A BLACK ATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE.
March 22, 1998... Since its inception, jazz has developed in dialogue with Afro-Latin musics; as Jelly Roll Morton affirmed, "Spanish tinges" were integral to early jazz in the quintessentially Caribbean city of New Orleans (quoted in Lomax 1973, 63). The two...

INSTRUMENTS OF IDENTITY: ALTON AUGUSTUS ADAMS SR., THE NAVY BAND OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, AND THE SOUNDS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.
March 22, 1998... There must have been a moment during the transfer ceremony when no flag waved over the Virgin Islands. A moment that captured, on one hand, the uncertainty, ambiguity, and fear created by the exchange and, on the other, the economic opportunity...

REMEMBERING KOJO: HISTORY, MUSIC, AND GENDER IN THE JANUARY SIXTH CELEBRATION OF THE JAMAICAN ACCOMPONG MAROONS.
March 22, 1998... The January Sixth celebration of the Maroons of Accompong, Jamaica, commemorates both the birth of the Maroon leader, Kojo (Cudjoe),(1) and his victory over the British, which resulted in the signing of the peace treaty of 1739. The Accompong...

INTERACTION AND IMPROVISATION BETWEEN DANCERS AND DRUMMERS IN MARTINICAN BELE.
March 22, 1998... Many scholars of the arts of Africa and the African diaspora have noted the close connection of dance and music. African and diasporic musicians play music as movement, and dancers feel movement as music. In some cases, the mutuality of dance...

THE DUGU RITUAL OF THE GARINAGU OF BELIZE: REINFORCING VALUES OF SOCIETY THROUGH MUSIC AND SPIRIT POSSESSION.
March 22, 1998... This article examines the relationship between music and the spirit realm of the Garinagu (people of African and Amerindian descent) of Belize as displayed in adugurahani ("Feasting the Dead"), a three- or four-day ritual to appease neglected...

WEST AFRICAN AND HAITIAN INFLUENCES ON THE RITUAL AND POPULAR MUSIC OF CARRIACOU, TRINIDAD, AND CUBA.
March 22, 1998... Afro-Caribbean ritual music may be divided into two broad categories. One includes the music for Caribbean religions that seem to draw traditions from one particular ethnic group in Africa or another. These religions tend to have separate rites...

ANALOGIES AND DIFFERENCES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL CULTURES ACROSS THE HEMISPHERE: INTERPRETIVE MODELS AND RESEARCH STRATEGIES.
March 22, 1998... Before our eyes, African-American cultures in their various expressions have unfolded a fascinating picture of resilience, transformation, invention, and innovation, revealing analogies, divergences, parallel strands, cohesion, single traits...

THE FRENCH MUSICAL THEATER: MAINTAINING CONTROL IN CARIBBEAN COLONIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1998... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, musicians, poets, philosophers, and patrons of the arts were extremely fascinated with the "exotic"--that huge realm of ideas and events that thrived on a sense of the Other. In the Americas,...