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This compelling and personal exploration ofAfro-Cuban Santeracomes with a CD featuring 20 mesmerizing songs from prominentAfro-Cuban musicians that embody the book's themes In Divine Utterances , Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santera and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folklrico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics, and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades a secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony. Hagedorn's analysis is deeply informed by her experiences in Cuba as a woman, scholar, and apprentice bat drummer. She argues that constructions of race and gender, the politics of pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, the economics of tourism, and contemporary practices within Santera have contributed to a blurring of boundaries b

Author

Katherine J. Hagedorn

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press; Smithsonian; Brand: Smithsonian

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781560989226

Subjects

Music, Sociology, History