Black Music Research Journal articles from September 2006

Black Music Research Journal archives from September 2006

Errata.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2006... [The following corrects the example that appeared on pages 181-182 of BMRJ vol. 25 1/2.--Ed.] Example 6. Count Basie, "One o'Clock Jump," mm. 1-12 (transposed into the key of C by Helmut Hillegeist) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
September 22, 2006... That this issue of BMRJ addresses a single broad subject is the result of happy coincidence: the almost simultaneous receipt of submissions that collectively brought together a number of issues related to the African diaspora in the...

The mulatta, the bishop, and dances in the Cathedral: race, music, and power relations in seventeenth-century Puerto Rico.(Fray Francisco Padilla)(Report)
September 22, 2006... At the beginning of the twentieth century, Cayetano Coll y Toste, a Puerto Rican physician and historian, wrote "Los bailes de la Catedral" (The Dances in the Cathedral). In it, Fray Francisco Padilla, bishop of Puerto Rico, writes to the king...

"Joe'i Korsou?" (who is the true Curacaoan?): a musical dialogue on identity in twentieth-century Curacao.(Report)
September 22, 2006... Meaning is what gives us a sense of our own identity, of who we are and with whom we 'belong'--so it is tied up with questions of how culture is used to mark out and maintain identity within and difference between groups. --Stuart Hall...

The rhythmic component of afrocubanismo in the art music of Cuba.(Report)
September 22, 2006... Afrocubanismo was an aesthetic trend in art music, focusing on the recognition, assimilation, and validation of African cultural features present in Cuban society. The new ethos found expression in the works of the Grupo Minorista, a seminal...

Mass culture, commodification, and the consolidation of the Afro-Peruvian festejo.(Report)
September 22, 2006... There are two souls that exist in the contemporary world, those of revolution and decadence.... [T]he consciousness of the artist is the agonizing circus of struggle between the two spirits. An understanding of this struggle sometimes, most of...