Black soundscapes white stages [electronic resource] : the meaning of Francophone sound in the black Atlantic / Edwin C. Hill Jr.
Material type: TextSeries: The Callaloo African Diaspora SeriesPublication details: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9781421410609
- 1421410605
- Poetics -- Language
- Soundscapes (Music) -- West Indies, French
- Negritude (Literary movement)
- Beguines (Music) -- West Indies, French -- History
- Blacks -- West Indies, French -- Music -- History
- African diaspora in literature
- Sound (Philosophy)
- West Indian literature (French) -- History and criticism
- West Indies, French -- Colonization
- 840.9/9729 23
- PQ3940.5 .H55 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Le tumulte noir (pt I): French imperial soundscapes and the New World -- "Adieu madras, adieu foulard": the Doudou's colonial complaint -- "To begin the Biguine": remembering Antillean musical time -- La Baker: Princesse Tam Tam and the Doudou's signature dilemma -- Negritude drum circles: the Tam-Tam and the beat -- Le poste colonial and technologies of the minor -- Conclusion: "Notes from the sound field".
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