Crossing diaspora's borders: musical roots experiences and the Euro-American presence in Afro-Cuban religious music.
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https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i4.1869Abstract
As a potentially more useful heuristic, I discuss what I call a musical "roots experience.” In doing so, I argue that recent Euro-American interest in Afro-Cuban music is a logical result of a search for a historicized cultural self, quite similar to that of African-Americans. In this way, the framework of a "roots experience” highlights experiential similarities across an ethnically diverse community of practitioners, whereas relying on the concept of the African Diaspora could possibly reinforce racial barriers.References
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“Crossing diaspora’s Borders: Musical Roots Experiences and the Euro-American Presence in Afro-Cuban Religious Music”. 2010. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 8 (4): 101-9. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i4.1869.
