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Secular Devotion

Secular Devotion

Secular Devotion
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Secular Devotion Paperback - 2008

by Brennan, Timothy,

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  • Title Secular Devotion
  • Author Brennan, Timothy,
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 290
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso, London
  • Publication date 2008-10-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5689568-n
  • ISBN 9781844672912 / 1844672913
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.14 x 0.9 in (23.32 x 15.60 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Popular music - Latin America - History and, Popular music - United States - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008563191
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781
  • Quantity available 5

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From the publisher

Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban and Latin salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a Western worldview, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the very sound of modern life. But the African religious philosophy at their core involved a longing for earlier eras--ones that pre-dated the technological discipline of labor forced on captive populations by the European occupiers. In this groundbreaking new book, Timothy Brennan shows how the popular music of the Americas--the music of entertainment, nightlife, and leisure--is involved in a devotion to an African religious worldview that survived the ravages of slavery and found its way into the rituals of everyday listening. In doing so he explores the challenge posed by Afro-Latin music to a world music system dominated by a few wealthy countries and the processes by which Afro-Latin music has been absorbed into the imperial imagination.

Media reviews

“An amazing book. Afro-Latin music at the highest levels of discourse and imagination. Destined to become an abiding classic.”—Robert Farris Thompson

“If you’ve never read another music book or have yet to read a book about jazz, make this the one.”—Will Shapira, Jazz Notes

“A fine examination of the impact of African music and how music became what it is today”—Midwest Book Review

About the author

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. His books include At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and, most recently, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of the Left and Right. He writes for a number of journals, including New Left Review and The Nation.

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