Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora /
McAlister, Elizabeth A., 1963-.
Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / Elizabeth McAlister. - Berkeley ; University of California Press, cop. 2002 - xviii, 259 s. : kuv. ; 24 cm + 1 CD-äänilevy.
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.
S. [ix]: Contents. - S. xi: [List of] illustrations. - S. xv-xviii: Guide to the compact disc Rara!. - S. 237-248: Sources. - S. 249-259: Index.
Acknowledgments ; Introducing rara ; Work and play, pleasure and performance ; Vulgarity and the politics of the small man ; Mystical work : spirits on parade ; Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti ; Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare ; Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity ; Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture ; Appendix : chronology of political events, 1990-1995 : annotated with transnational rara band activity ; Glossary ; Notes
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Rara Festival--Songs and music--History and criticism
Voodoo music--History and criticism--Haiti
Folk music--History and criticism--Haiti
Folk songs, Creole--History and criticism--Haiti
musiikkisosiologia--perinnemusiikki--Haiti
voodoo--Haiti
musiksociologi--traditionell musik--Haiti
Haiti--Social life and customs--20th century
Haiti--Social conditions--1971-
Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / Elizabeth McAlister. - Berkeley ; University of California Press, cop. 2002 - xviii, 259 s. : kuv. ; 24 cm + 1 CD-äänilevy.
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.
S. [ix]: Contents. - S. xi: [List of] illustrations. - S. xv-xviii: Guide to the compact disc Rara!. - S. 237-248: Sources. - S. 249-259: Index.
Acknowledgments ; Introducing rara ; Work and play, pleasure and performance ; Vulgarity and the politics of the small man ; Mystical work : spirits on parade ; Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti ; Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare ; Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity ; Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture ; Appendix : chronology of political events, 1990-1995 : annotated with transnational rara band activity ; Glossary ; Notes
0520228227
Rara Festival--Songs and music--History and criticism
Voodoo music--History and criticism--Haiti
Folk music--History and criticism--Haiti
Folk songs, Creole--History and criticism--Haiti
musiikkisosiologia--perinnemusiikki--Haiti
voodoo--Haiti
musiksociologi--traditionell musik--Haiti
Haiti--Social life and customs--20th century
Haiti--Social conditions--1971-