Music and the Performance of Identity on Marie-Galante, French Antilles (SOAS Musicology Series)

by RonEmoff (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $171.75

  Marie-Galante is a small island situated in the Caribbean to the south of Guadeloupe. This book focuses on kadril dance and gwo ka drumming, two musical practices on the island with which Marie-Galantais construct unique perceptions of self in relation, specifically, to Africa and France.