AFRO-LATIN HISTORY & CULTURE

This blog aims to examine how samba, merengue, Latin jazz, son, and other Afro-Latin musical genres reflect the Afro-Latin American experience from the colonial period to the modern day. The stylistic and historical elements of these various musical forms are presented within the context of various cultural and art movements that occurred in the Afro-Latin diaspora.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Garifuna

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While the origins of the Garifuna, a culturally hybrid, multilingual people of mixed Amerindian and African ancestry who never submitt...
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Steel drums of Trinidad

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Yorubans represented a large portion of the slave population in Trinidad, which explains how the Shango religion that emerged as a syncretic...
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Wifredo Lam and Fernando Ortiz

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Afrocubanismo spawned a number of artists, such as the painter Wifredo Lam, composer Amadeo Roldán and the poet Nicolás Guillén , who often...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

From Whitening to Afrocubanismo

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     Driven by the prospects of emancipation and an opportunity to play a prominent role in nation building, Afro-Cubans enthusiasticall...

Afro-Latin Music in the United States

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The early twentieth century American presence in Cuba facilitated a cultural exchange between Afro-Cuban artists and som...
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Haitians in Cuba

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     In early 18th century Cuba the Spanish Catholic Church created mutual aid societies, known as cabildos , which, in spite of the imposed...
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Afro-Mexicans in Mexican History and Culture

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The nationalistic call to assimilate into La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race) obscures a rich cultural and historical legacy of Afro-Mexicans...
Sunday, October 2, 2011

Sugar's Labor Requirements

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     T he Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) positioned Cuba to replace Haiti as the premier sugar producing country in the Western Hemisphere....
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

New and Old World Intersections of Music, Religion, and Culture

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The trickster deity in West Africa, Esu, was reformulated in parts of the New World as Legba (also known as Elegguá, Eshu, Elegbara), who in...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Notes on Mintz: Slavery, Forced Labor and the Plantation System

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Nearly all Caribbean slaves were allocated for needs of large-scale agriculture, especially for production of subtropical commodities: su...
Friday, April 8, 2011

African Retentions in Latin Music

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A number of African retentions are apparent throughout the vast range of Afro-Latin music, including the antiphonic (call-and-response) song...
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