Kenneth Bilby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88759 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth Bilby |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth |
| APELLIDO | Bilby |
| FIRMA | BILBY K |
| AFILIACIONES | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Prophets of Doom
Ville noire, pays blanc
Almost Home
Almost Home is one of the latest books to attempt to tackle the Jamaican Maroon saga-an oft-told story that continues to excite academic and popular debate across generations.It is distinguished from previous histories of the Maroons in two ways.First, it focuses almost exclusively on a single group, the Trelawney Maroons, following their trajectory from the Second Maroon War of 1795-96 through their deportation to Nova Scotia and eventual resett…
Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan
Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan is the final Caribbean entry in John Gray's remarkable Black Music Reference Series.It retains the basic organization that served so admirably in the series's previous volumes, with sections on "Cultural History and the Arts," "Caribbean Festival Arts," "Music of the English-Speaking Caribbean and Its Diaspora," "Regional Studies," and "Biographical and Critical Studies."Like its predecessors, it also features help…
Maroons, Creoles, and others
Jean Besson has earned a reputation as one of the leading ethnographers of rural Jamaica. Over more than four decades, she has built up an impressive body of work based on ongoing fieldwork in seve
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
Creole Music of the French West Indies
Rosemarijn Hoefte. Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century
Journal Article Rosemarijn Hoefte. Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century: Domination, Contestation, Globalization. Rosemarijn Hoefte. Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century: Domination, Contestation, Globalization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xii, 294. $95.00. Kenneth Bilby Kenneth Bilby Smithsonian Institution [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, V…
How Readable is the Caribbean Soundscape
An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
Distant Drums
(2010). Distant Drums: The Unsung Contribution of African-Jamaican Percussion to Popular Music at Home and Abroad. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 56, Pioneering Icons of Jamaican Popular Music, Part II. Guest editor: Clinton Hutton, pp. 1-21
Surviving Secularization
Jankunu (Jonkonnu, Junkanoo), an Afro-Caribbean Yuletide tradition centering on masked dance, is generally characterized as a secular festival. This article presents contemporary ethnographic evidence showing that certain older variants of the tradition remain closely connected with African-derived religious concepts and practices. On the basis of this new evidence, the author argues for a reexamination and reevaluation of the historical signific…
African American Memory at the Crossroads
Richard Price's Travels with Tooy culminates with a series of reflections on a fundamental fissure that has persisted in the theorization of African American culture. On one side are those who stress African cultural continuity of various kinds, and on the other, those who argue for the primacy of cultural dynamism, creativity and change. Drawing on ethnographic and philosophical insights gained from his close engagement with the book's protagoni…
Jamesie, King of Scratch (DVD) by Andrea E. Leland
True‐Born Maroons
True-Born Maroons
Lengua y ritos del Palo Monte Mayombe
The explorer as hero
Reconstructs the life story and activities of the Aluku Maroon Captain Apatu in French Guiana. Author describes how Apatu aligned with and aided French explorer Jules Cerveaux in exploring the Amazon region in the late 1870s, and maintained contacts with other French colonial figures. Partly because his role and achievements in colonial expansion were valued by the French, Apatu became an important intermediary between the French and the Aluku Ma…
Caribbean Voyage
Divine Utterances
Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santería. Katherine Hagedorn. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. viii. 296 pp., figures, CD, glossary, discography, filmography, references, index
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage. William S. Pollitzer. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.298 pp
Suriname, Republic of.
Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean
(2001). Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 87-100
Kumina
How the ýolder headsý talk
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean
(2001). Notes and documents - On the Early Use and Origin of the Term 'Obeah' in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 87-100
Roots Explosion
L'A. examine les interactions et l'harmonisation de deux caracteristiques, contradictoires et complementaires, de la musique populaire contemporaine du Surinam : d'une part les origines autochtones et traditionnelles africaines et des Caraibes liees a l'esclavage, et plus particulierement a l'histoire du marronnage, et a l'identite creole, d'autre part l'incorporation et l'exploration permanente d'elements de la musique urbaine, moderne, et inter…
The Kromanti dance of the windward maroons of Jamaica
Introduction1 In the mountainous interior of Jamaica live several groups of people known as Maroons. They are the descendants of African and Creole slaves who escaped from bondage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and fled to the mountain forests, where they were able to from their own societies.2 Despite repeated efforts, the British colonists were unable to destroy these rebel communities. The Maroons successfully adapted to their…
Swearing by the Past, Swearing to the Future
Surviving Secularization
Jankunu (Jonkonnu, Junkanoo), an Afro-Caribbean Yuletide tradition centering on masked dance, is generally characterized as a secular festival. This article presents contemporary ethnographic evidence showing that certain older variants of the tradition remain closely connected with African-derived religious concepts and practices. On the basis of this new evidence, the author argues for a reexamination and reevaluation of the historical signific…
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage. William S. Pollitzer. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.298 pp
Two Sister Pikni”
Distant Drums
(2010). Distant Drums: The Unsung Contribution of African-Jamaican Percussion to Popular Music at Home and Abroad. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 56, Pioneering Icons of Jamaican Popular Music, Part II. Guest editor: Clinton Hutton, pp. 1-21
The explorer as hero
Reconstructs the life story and activities of the Aluku Maroon Captain Apatu in French Guiana. Author describes how Apatu aligned with and aided French explorer Jules Cerveaux in exploring the Amazon region in the late 1870s, and maintained contacts with other French colonial figures. Partly because his role and achievements in colonial expansion were valued by the French, Apatu became an important intermediary between the French and the Aluku Ma…
Divine Utterances
Divine Utterances: The Performance of Afro-Cuban Santería. Katherine Hagedorn. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. viii. 296 pp., figures, CD, glossary, discography, filmography, references, index
Aleke
On the northeastern coast of South America in Suriname and French Guiana, live six Maroon peoples--the Saramaka, Ndyuka, Paramaka, Aluku, Matawai, and Kwinti. Descended from enslaved Africans who escaped Dutch plantations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, until recently they have remained relatively isolated in the interior rain forests
Caribbean Currents
Rethinking the Popular
Divided loyalties
Aluku village of Kotika in Suriname serves as an example how political alignments sometimes influence the definition of ethnic identities and interethnic relations. The Alukus in French Guiana and their Surinamese Maroon neighbours the Ndjuka and Paramaka show evidence of increasingly growing apart, even though these tribes possess similar cultures. Political separation thus heightens cultural differences
The impact of reggae in the United States
(1977). The impact of reggae in the United States. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 17-22
Bongo, Backra & Coolie
The impact of reggae in the United States
(1977). The impact of reggae in the United States. Popular Music and Society: Vol. 5, No. 5, pp. 17-22
Bongo, Backra & Coolie
The Kromanti dance of the windward maroons of Jamaica
Introduction1 In the mountainous interior of Jamaica live several groups of people known as Maroons. They are the descendants of African and Creole slaves who escaped from bondage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and fled to the mountain forests, where they were able to from their own societies.2 Despite repeated efforts, the British colonists were unable to destroy these rebel communities. The Maroons successfully adapted to their…
Facundo Gonzales, New Mexican Violinista
Black thoughts from the Caribbean
In 1953 the anthropologist George Eaton Simpson carried out a study of religious cults in the severely depressed outskirts of the Jamaican capital of Kingston. There, in the midst of dire poverty, he happened upon a sociological goldmine. Alongside the Pocomanian and Revivalist traditionalists, with their otherworldly blends of Christian doctrine and African survivals, was blossoming a newer phenomenon which could not have failed to whet a social…
How the ýolder headsý talk
Two Sister Pikni”
The treacherous feast
On June 6, 1796, an entire community of black Jamaicans, numbering nearly 600, set sail reluctantly from Port Royal, en route to Halifax, where an uncertain future awaited them.The voyage was not of their own making.Victims of British deceit during the protracted conflict which has come to be known as the "Second Maroon War", these people had been thrust int0 the realization of their own worst fears.The Trelawny Maroons, as they were called, were…
The half still untold
Linguistic Anthropology
Divided loyalties
Aluku village of Kotika in Suriname serves as an example how political alignments sometimes influence the definition of ethnic identities and interethnic relations. The Alukus in French Guiana and their Surinamese Maroon neighbours the Ndjuka and Paramaka show evidence of increasingly growing apart, even though these tribes possess similar cultures. Political separation thus heightens cultural differences
The Boni Maroon Wars in Suriname. Wim Hoogbergen
Drums of Defiance
Drums of Defiance
Rethinking the Popular
Tracking the Caribbean sound
First paragraph]Zouk: World Music in the West lndies. JOCELYNE GuiLBAULT (with GAGE AVERILL, ÉDOUARD BENOIT & GREGORY RABESS). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xxv + 279 pp. and compact disk. (Cloth US$ 55.00, Paper US$ 27.75) Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad. DONALD R. HlLL. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. xvi + 344 pp. and compact disk. (Cloth US$ 49.95, Paper US$ 24.95) Calypso & Society in Pre-Indep…
Caribbean Currents
Caribbean Currents
Swearing by the Past, Swearing to the Future
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
Caribbean Currents
Roots Explosion
L'A. examine les interactions et l'harmonisation de deux caracteristiques, contradictoires et complementaires, de la musique populaire contemporaine du Surinam : d'une part les origines autochtones et traditionnelles africaines et des Caraibes liees a l'esclavage, et plus particulierement a l'histoire du marronnage, et a l'identite creole, d'autre part l'incorporation et l'exploration permanente d'elements de la musique urbaine, moderne, et inter…
Making modernity in the hinterlands
Introduction Born in mortal opposition to the peculiarly modern forms of slavery that helped to usher in a new era of European world domination, the Maroon societies of the Americas have long provided theorists of identity operating in the realm that has come to be known as the Black Atlantic with a potent symbolic currency. Nowhere has this currency acquired higher value than in the Caribbean region, where questions of identity are so fundamenta…
Suriname, Republic of.
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