Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / Elizabeth McAlister.
By: McAlister, Elizabeth A
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002Description: xviii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520228235 (paper : alk. paper); 0520228227 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Rara Festival -- Songs and music -- History and criticism | Vodou music -- Haiti -- History and criticism | Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism | Folk songs, Creole -- Haiti -- History and criticism | Haiti -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Haiti -- Social conditions -- 1971-LOC classification: ML3565 | .M384 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246), discography (pages 246-248), videography (page 248), and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 West | ML3565 .M384 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 0182902298385 |
Includes 24 track sound disc and Guide to compact disc Rara! (p. xv-xviii).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246), discography (pages 246-248), videography (page 248), and index.
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.