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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Performing the Nation: Musical Constructions of Haitian Cultural Identity 1. The Politics of Musical Ethnography: Jean Price-Mars and the Ethnological Movement 2. Recombinant Mythology and the Alchemy of Memory: Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean- Jacques Dessalines 3. Africans and Arawaks: The Music of Ludovic Lamothe and Justin Elie 4. Visions of Vodou in African-American Operas about Haiti: Ouanga and Troubled Island 5. Ethnography and Music Ideology: The Music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber Epilogue: Roots Music and Cultural Memory Glossary Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
Voodoo music -- Haiti -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Haiti -- Music.
Haiti -- Social life and customs.