Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism

by Michael Largey

Book Overview

While the Haitian musical tradition is probably best known for the Vodou-inspired roots music that helped topple the two-generation Duvalier dictatorship, the nation's troubled history of civil unrest and its tangled relationship with the United States is more intensely experienced through its art music, which combines French and German elements of classical music with Haiti's indigenous folk music. Vodou Nation examines art music by Haitian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226468658
• ISBN13: 9780226468655
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"