Lois Wilcken
Biographic Data
| ID | 684221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lois Wilcken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lois |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilcken |
| SIGNATURE | WILCKEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | City Lore, a center for folk arts in New York City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Men sa lanmè di / Ainsi parla la mer (Thus spoke the sea) by Arnold Antonin (review)
Reviewed by: Men sa lanmè di / Ainsi parla la mer (Thus spoke the sea) by Arnold Antonin Lois Wilcken Men sa lanmè di/Ainsi parla la mer (Thus spoke the sea). Film by Arnold Antonin. Pétion-Ville, Haiti: Centre Pétion-Bolivar. 50 minutes. Freely available on YouTube (Arnold Antonin Haiti Films): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoO48p2udQ (French subtitles), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbubMN4b4w (English subtitles). Arnold Antonin's stunnin…
Marasa: A Special Issue and a Working Group for the Environment
This special issue on Haiti's environment and a recently created working group within the Haitian Studies Association (HSA) share a birth year: 2020. The pair had their conception during HSA's 2016 conference in Cap-Haïtien, "Haiti's Eco-systems: Focus on Environmental Realities and Hopes." The meeting in Cap-Haïtien demonstrated a significant interest in the environment of Haiti and its challenges. Members responded to the call with papers, pane…
Ecological Wisdom in the Marvelous Realism of Vodou (by way of Jacques Stéphen Alexis)
For three days Père Osmin's escort of parishioners and police rooted through the village of Fonds-Parisien near the Haitian shore of Lake Azuéi, driven by a fevered mission to destroy every temple that served Haiti's ancestral spirits. Along the way they puzzled over the sanctuaries for the ancestors and the spirits of Africa, now empty of their diabolic (to them) accoutrements. The anguished cries of nocturnal birds in broad daylight disquieted …
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti, by Rebecca Dirksen
Latino music
Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship
Belle Ayiti: Mizik Savant Ayisyen (Beautiful Haiti: Haitian Classical Music)
Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks
Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism (review)
The Sacred Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou from Temple to Stage and the Ethics of Representation
true and at the same time quite remarkable about the Vodou, wrote Moreau de Saint-Mery (1958 [1797]: 68, my translation), is the kind of force that induces those present to dance to insensibility. ... Without doubt in order to the fears that this mysterious cult inspires in the colony, [the blacks] pretend to dance it in public, to the sound of the drums and the clapping of hands. ... But I guarantee that it all the more a calculated move to esca…
Music of the World
Caribbean Revels: Haitian Rara and Dominican Gaga
Benin: Rhythmes et chants pour les vodun
Power, Ambivalence, and the Remaking of Haitian Vodoun Music in New York
Lois E. Wilcken, Power, Ambivalence, and the Remaking of Haitian Vodoun Music in New York, Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1992), pp. 1-32
Musique du vaudou: Fonctions, Structures, Et Styles
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Haitian Song . 1982. Produced by Erzulie Films , and directed by Karen Kramer
The Sacred Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou from Temple to Stage and the Ethics of Representation
true and at the same time quite remarkable about the Vodou, wrote Moreau de Saint-Mery (1958 [1797]: 68, my translation), is the kind of force that induces those present to dance to insensibility. ... Without doubt in order to the fears that this mysterious cult inspires in the colony, [the blacks] pretend to dance it in public, to the sound of the drums and the clapping of hands. ... But I guarantee that it all the more a calculated move to esca…
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Haitian Song . 1982. Produced by Erzulie Films , and directed by Karen Kramer
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Musique du vaudou: Fonctions, Structures, Et Styles
Power, Ambivalence, and the Remaking of Haitian Vodoun Music in New York
Lois E. Wilcken, Power, Ambivalence, and the Remaking of Haitian Vodoun Music in New York, Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1992), pp. 1-32
Benin: Rhythmes et chants pour les vodun
Caribbean Revels: Haitian Rara and Dominican Gaga
Music of the World
The Sacred Music and Dance of Haitian Vodou from Temple to Stage and the Ethics of Representation
true and at the same time quite remarkable about the Vodou, wrote Moreau de Saint-Mery (1958 [1797]: 68, my translation), is the kind of force that induces those present to dance to insensibility. ... Without doubt in order to the fears that this mysterious cult inspires in the colony, [the blacks] pretend to dance it in public, to the sound of the drums and the clapping of hands. ... But I guarantee that it all the more a calculated move to esca…
Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism (review)
Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks
Belle Ayiti: Mizik Savant Ayisyen (Beautiful Haiti: Haitian Classical Music)
Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship
Latino music
After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy: Carnival, Politics, and Musical Engagement in Haiti, by Rebecca Dirksen
Men sa lanmè di / Ainsi parla la mer (Thus spoke the sea) by Arnold Antonin (review)
Reviewed by: Men sa lanmè di / Ainsi parla la mer (Thus spoke the sea) by Arnold Antonin Lois Wilcken Men sa lanmè di/Ainsi parla la mer (Thus spoke the sea). Film by Arnold Antonin. Pétion-Ville, Haiti: Centre Pétion-Bolivar. 50 minutes. Freely available on YouTube (Arnold Antonin Haiti Films): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSoO48p2udQ (French subtitles), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmbubMN4b4w (English subtitles). Arnold Antonin's stunnin…
Marasa: A Special Issue and a Working Group for the Environment
This special issue on Haiti's environment and a recently created working group within the Haitian Studies Association (HSA) share a birth year: 2020. The pair had their conception during HSA's 2016 conference in Cap-Haïtien, "Haiti's Eco-systems: Focus on Environmental Realities and Hopes." The meeting in Cap-Haïtien demonstrated a significant interest in the environment of Haiti and its challenges. Members responded to the call with papers, pane…
Ecological Wisdom in the Marvelous Realism of Vodou (by way of Jacques Stéphen Alexis)
For three days Père Osmin's escort of parishioners and police rooted through the village of Fonds-Parisien near the Haitian shore of Lake Azuéi, driven by a fevered mission to destroy every temple that served Haiti's ancestral spirits. Along the way they puzzled over the sanctuaries for the ancestors and the spirits of Africa, now empty of their diabolic (to them) accoutrements. The anguished cries of nocturnal birds in broad daylight disquieted …
Art (12 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (11 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works)