Author: Juan Eduardo Wolf
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041155
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on hide-head drums, the tumbe resonated with cosmopolitan images of what the African Diaspora looks like, and so helped bring attention to a community seeking legal recognition from the Chilean government which denied its existence. Tumbe carnaval, however, was not the only type of music and dance that Afro-Chileans have participated in and identified with over the years. In Styling Blackness in Chile, Juan Eduardo Wolf explores the multiple ways that Black individuals in Arica have performed music and dance to frame their Blackness in relationship to other groups of performers—a process he calls styling. Combining ethnography and semiotic analysis, Wolf illustrates how styling Blackness as Criollo, Moreno, and Indígena through genres like the baile de tierra, morenos de paso, and caporales simultaneously offered individuals alternative ways of identifying and contributed to the invisibility of Afro-descendants in Chilean society. While the styling of the tumbe as Afro-descendant helped make Chile's Black community visible once again, Wolf also notes that its success raises issues of representation as more people begin to perform the genre in ways that resonate less with local cultural memory and Afro-Chilean activists' goals. At a moment when Chile's government continues to discuss whether to recognize the Afro-Chilean population and Chilean society struggles to come to terms with an increase in Latin American Afro-descendant immigrants, Wolf's book raises awareness of Blackness in Chile and the variety of Black music-dance throughout the African Diaspora, while also providing tools that ethnomusicologists and other scholars of expressive culture can use to study the role of music-dance in other cultural contexts.
Styling Blackness in Chile
Author: Juan Eduardo Wolf
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041155
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on hide-head drums, the tumbe resonated with cosmopolitan images of what the African Diaspora looks like, and so helped bring attention to a community seeking legal recognition from the Chilean government which denied its existence. Tumbe carnaval, however, was not the only type of music and dance that Afro-Chileans have participated in and identified with over the years. In Styling Blackness in Chile, Juan Eduardo Wolf explores the multiple ways that Black individuals in Arica have performed music and dance to frame their Blackness in relationship to other groups of performers—a process he calls styling. Combining ethnography and semiotic analysis, Wolf illustrates how styling Blackness as Criollo, Moreno, and Indígena through genres like the baile de tierra, morenos de paso, and caporales simultaneously offered individuals alternative ways of identifying and contributed to the invisibility of Afro-descendants in Chilean society. While the styling of the tumbe as Afro-descendant helped make Chile's Black community visible once again, Wolf also notes that its success raises issues of representation as more people begin to perform the genre in ways that resonate less with local cultural memory and Afro-Chilean activists' goals. At a moment when Chile's government continues to discuss whether to recognize the Afro-Chilean population and Chilean society struggles to come to terms with an increase in Latin American Afro-descendant immigrants, Wolf's book raises awareness of Blackness in Chile and the variety of Black music-dance throughout the African Diaspora, while also providing tools that ethnomusicologists and other scholars of expressive culture can use to study the role of music-dance in other cultural contexts.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253041155
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Chile had long forgotten about the existence of the country's Black population when, in 2003, the music and dance called the tumbe carnaval appeared on the streets of the city of Arica. Featuring turbaned dancers accompanied by a lively rhythm played on hide-head drums, the tumbe resonated with cosmopolitan images of what the African Diaspora looks like, and so helped bring attention to a community seeking legal recognition from the Chilean government which denied its existence. Tumbe carnaval, however, was not the only type of music and dance that Afro-Chileans have participated in and identified with over the years. In Styling Blackness in Chile, Juan Eduardo Wolf explores the multiple ways that Black individuals in Arica have performed music and dance to frame their Blackness in relationship to other groups of performers—a process he calls styling. Combining ethnography and semiotic analysis, Wolf illustrates how styling Blackness as Criollo, Moreno, and Indígena through genres like the baile de tierra, morenos de paso, and caporales simultaneously offered individuals alternative ways of identifying and contributed to the invisibility of Afro-descendants in Chilean society. While the styling of the tumbe as Afro-descendant helped make Chile's Black community visible once again, Wolf also notes that its success raises issues of representation as more people begin to perform the genre in ways that resonate less with local cultural memory and Afro-Chilean activists' goals. At a moment when Chile's government continues to discuss whether to recognize the Afro-Chilean population and Chilean society struggles to come to terms with an increase in Latin American Afro-descendant immigrants, Wolf's book raises awareness of Blackness in Chile and the variety of Black music-dance throughout the African Diaspora, while also providing tools that ethnomusicologists and other scholars of expressive culture can use to study the role of music-dance in other cultural contexts.
A Directory of Institutional Resources, U.S. Centers of Competence for International Development
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Program and Methodology
Publisher:
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Category : Technical assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technical assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Latin American Studies
Author: Ann Hartness
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
A Directory of Institutional Resources Supported by Section 211 D Grants
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Office of Program and Methodology
Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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National Directory of Latin Americanists
Author: Library of Congress. Hispanic Foundation
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Directory of Resources for Cultural and Educational Exchanges and International Communication
Author:
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Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational exchanges
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Latin American Studies in the United States
Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Resources in Education
A Directory of Information Resources in the United States
Author: National Referral Center (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information services
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Latin America
Author: Princeton University. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description