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George List

Animal Tales from the Caribbean

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These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In this volume these stories are situated within their performance contexts and represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge that for centuries has been preserved and cultivated by African-descendant populations in the Americas.Ethnomusicologist George List collect… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: McDowell, John Holmes (Hrsg.) / Rojas E, Juan Sebastian (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-253-03113-6
  • EAN: 9780253031136
  • Produktnummer: 22025477
  • Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 270 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 396 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 396

Über den Autor


George List (1911-2008) was Director of the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University in Bloomington from 1954 until his retirement in 1976. He is credited with helping to develop the Ethnomusicology Program at Indiana University and establishing the Archives of Traditional Music as a major holding of recorded sound. His published works include Music and Poetry in a Colombian Village: A Tri-Cultural Heritage.John Holmes McDowell is Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He is author of ¡Corrido! The Living Ballad of Mexico's Western Coast and Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica, and author (with Francisco Tandioy-Jansasoy and Eduardo Wolf) of Inga Rimangapa Samuichi: Speaking the Quechua of Colombia. He is editor of Special Publications of the Folklore Institute and the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews.Juan Sebastián Rojas E. is Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. He has conducted research about Afro-Colombian musical traditions, music and conflict transformation, the institutionalization of traditions, the culture industries, and musical archivistics.

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