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Secular devotion : Afro-Latin music and imperial jazz /
Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban Latin and salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a largely European outlook, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Verso,
c2008.
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Table of Contents:
- World music does not exist
- Surrealism and the Son
- Face down in the mainstream
- Rap and American business
- Global youth and local pleasure
- The war of writing on music : Mumbo jumbo
- Imperial jazz.