Download Your Copy Different Drummers: Rhythm And Race In The Americas (Volume 14) (Music Of The African Diaspora) Created By Martin Munro Supplied As Digital Copy

Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this Different Drummers's dazzling, wideranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World.
Martin Munros groundbreaking work traces the centraland contestedrole of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression.
Starting with enslaved African musicians, Munro takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States.
Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean PriceMars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka.
Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, Munro shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.
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