{"product_id":"9780472027477","title":"Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances","description":"\"Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering.  With a mix of Nuyorican, Cuban, Haitian, Kenyan, Senegalese, Trinidagonian, and Brazilian beats, \u003ci\u003eRhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e proves that the pleasures of poly-rhythm belong to the realm of the discursive as well as the sonic and the kinesthetic.\"\u003cbr\u003e ---Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"As necessary as it is brilliant, \u003ci\u003eRhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e dances across, beyond, and within the Black Atlantic Diaspora with the aplomb and skill befitting its editors and contributors.\"\u003cbr\u003e ---Mark Anthony Neal, author of \u003ci\u003eSoul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Along with linked modes of religiosity, music and dance have long occupied a central position in the ways in which Atlantic peoples have enacted, made sense of, and responded to their encounters with each other. This unique collection of essays connects nations from across the Atlantic---Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, among others---highlighting contemporary popular, folkloric, and religious music and dance. By tracking the continuous reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal traces, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eRhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e collectively argue that music and dance are the living evidence of a constant (re)composition and (re)mixing of local sounds and gestures.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e distinguishes itself as a collection focusing on the circulation of cultural forms across the Atlantic world, tracing the paths trod by a range of music and dance forms within, across, or beyond the variety of locales that constitute the Atlantic world. The editors and contributors do so, however, without assuming that these paths have been either always in line with national, regional, or continental boundaries or always transnational, transgressive, and perfectly hybrid\/syncretic. This collection seeks to reorient the discourse on cultural forms moving in the Atlantic world by being attentive to the specifics of the forms---their specific geneses, the specific uses to which they are put by their creators and consumers, and the specific ways in which they travel or churn in place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies, Director of the Institute of African Studies, and Professor of History at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jacket photograph by Elias Irizarry\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175186710768,"sku":"9780472027477","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472027477_p0.jpg?v=1763707386","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472027477","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}