{"product_id":"africanness-in-action-essentialism-and-musical-imaginations-of-africa-in-brazil-paperback","title":"Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJuan Diego Díaz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba and, more importantly, essentialized notions about Africa which have been fueled over centuries of contact between the \"West,\" Africa, and the African diaspora. These notions, of course, tend to reduce and often portray Africa and the diaspora as primitive, exotic, and monolithic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAfricanness in Action\u003c\/em\u003e, author Juan Diego Díaz explores this dynamic through the perspectives of Black musicians in Bahia, Brazil, a site imagined by many as a diasporic epicenter of African survivals and purity. Black musicians from Bahia, Díaz argues, assert Afro-Brazilian identities, promote social change, and critique racial inequality by creatively engaging essentialized tropes about African music and culture. Instead of reproducing these notions, musicians demonstrate agency by strategically emphasizing or downplaying them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJuan Diego Díaz\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at UC Davis. Prior to UC Davis, Díaz\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eheld posts as a lecturer at the University of Ghana and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Essex, the latter funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The funded research investigates the music of the descendants of freed enslaved Africans who resettled from Brazil to Ghana, Togo, and Benin during the nineteenth century. This research has produced a book called\u003cem\u003e Tabom Voices: A History of the Ghanaian Afro-Brazilian Community in Their Own Words\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and the documentary film \u003cem\u003eTabom in Bahia\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), documenting the visit of a Ghanaian master drummer to Bahia, Brazil. His articles appear in journals such as \u003cem\u003eEthnomusicology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEthnomusicology Forum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnalytical Approaches to World Music\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLatin American Music Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161893703815,"sku":"9780197549568","price":83.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/cfd07c4c3597a93e61310c59ba75555c.webp?v=1733284919","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/africanness-in-action-essentialism-and-musical-imaginations-of-africa-in-brazil-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}