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Description for Tambu
Paperback. Explores popular religious music and dance from the Caribbean Series: Ethnomusicology Multimedia. Num Pages: 182 pages, 28 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KJ; AVGE; HRLF; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
As contemporary Tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of Tambú, Nanette de Jong discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. De Jong recounts the personal stories and experiences of Afro-Curaçaoans as they perform Tambu–some who complain of its violence and low-class attraction and others who champion Tambú as a powerful tool of collective memory as well as a way to imagine the future.
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
182
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Ethnomusicology Multimedia
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223371
SKU
V9780253223371
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Nanette de Jong
Nanette de Jong is Senior Lecturer at the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University.
Reviews for Tambu
"In addition to its ample contribution to scholarship on the Caribbean and its musical practices, colonial-, and post-colonial histories, de Jong makes valuable contributions to a number of scholarly literatures concerned with Afro-Caribbean performance practices."—The World of Music "De Jong emphasizes 'tambu's' role as a medium of memory, cultural and political commentary, and commemorative history.Fall / Winter 2015"—Latin American Music Review "Overall, this volume in Indiana University Press's Ethnomusicology Multimedia series is an important contribution to Caribbean ethnomusicology and studies of creolization processes."—New West Indian Guide "To understand Tambú is to understand Caribbean music."—Donald Hill, SUNY–Oneonta "Examines the practice of Tambú that is associated with the syncretic religious tradition of Montamentu using memory as a framing device for understanding the African-derived cultural values, musical expressions, and socio-politically resistant behaviors against dominant European-based ideals of acceptability."—Michael Largey, Michigan State University