{"product_id":"9781560989479","title":"Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santeria","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDivine Utterances\u003c\/i\u003e, Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santería and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics, and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades a secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHagedorn's analysis is deeply informed by her experiences in Cuba as a woman, scholar, and apprentice batá drummer. She argues that constructions of race and gender, the politics of pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, the economics of tourism, and contemporary practices within Santería have contributed to a blurring of boundaries betwen the sacred and the folkloric. As both modes now vie for primacy in Cuba's burgeoning tourist trade, what had once been the music of a marginalized group is now a cultural expression of national pride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe compact disc that accompanies the book includes examples of twenty songs to the \u003ci\u003eorichas\u003c\/i\u003e, or Afro-Cuban deities, performed by prominent musicians, including Lázaro Ros, Francisco Aguabella, Alberto Villarreal, and Zenaida Armenteros.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smithsonian Institution Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053155696880,"sku":"9781560989479","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781560989479_p0.jpg?v=1763758236","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781560989479","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}