Diaz, Juan Diego - Africanness in Action

In Africanness in Action, author Juan Diego Diaz examines musicians' agency, constructions of blackness and Africanness, musical structure, performance practices, and rhetoric in Brazil, and provides a model for the study of African-derived music in other diasporic locales.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
1. Bahia as an Epicenter of African Diasporic Culture
2. Redeeming the Study of African Essentialism
3. Orkestra Rumpilezz: A Big Band Playing Percussion
4. Orkestra Rumpilezz: Complications of African Rhythm
5. Orquestra Afrosinfonica: The Africanization of Erudite Music
6. The Nzinga Berimbau Orchestra: Performances of Bantu Heritage
7. The Tuned Berimbaus of OBADX: Melodic Performances of Africanness
Conclusion: Lessons from Essentialism

Series	Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music