Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz by Timothy Brennan
Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz

Timothy Brennan

Secular Devotion: Afro-latin Music and Imperial Jazz

Timothy Brennan

290 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction music challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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