{"product_id":"rites-rights-and-rhythms-a-genealogy-of-musical-meaning-in-colombias-black-pacific-9780199913947","title":"Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific","description":"Colombia has the largest black population in the Spanish-speaking world, but Afro-Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of\u003cbr\u003eColombia's majority-black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic appeal, and social importance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eRites, Rights \u0026amp; Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book-length academic study of currulao, inquiring into the numerous ways it has been used: to praise the saints, to grapple with modernization, to dramatize black politics, to perform the nation, to\u003cbr\u003egenerate economic development and to provide social amelioration in a context of war. Author Michael Birenbaum Quintero draws on both archival and ethnographic research to trace these and other understandings of how currulao has been understood, illuminating a history of struggles over the meanings\u003cbr\u003eof currulao that are also struggles over the meanings of blackness in Colombia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from the eighteenth century to the present, \u003cem\u003eRites, Rights \u0026amp; Rhythms\u003c\/em\u003e asks how musical meaning is made, maintained, and sometimes abandoned across historical contexts as varied as colonial slavery, twentieth-century national populism, and neoliberal multiculturalism. What emerges is both a rich\u003cbr\u003eportrait of one of the hemisphere's most important and understudied black cultures and a theory of history traced through the performative practice of currulao.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Birenbaum Quintero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199913947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Birenbaum Quintero\u003c\/strong\u003e received his Master's and Doctoral degrees in Ethnomusicology at New York University. His research focuses on the music of the black inhabitants of Colombia's Pacific coast region, cultural politics, violence and trauma, black cosmopolitanism, and vernacular uses of technology. He is Associate Professor of Music, Latin American Studies, and African American Studies at Boston University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937670119539,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0c264987-25cc-42a4-beca-b19b5ab0c246.jpg?v=1647995436","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/rites-rights-and-rhythms-a-genealogy-of-musical-meaning-in-colombias-black-pacific-9780199913947","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}