Julian Gerstin
Biographic Data
| ID | 88758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Gerstin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerstin |
| SIGNATURE | GERSTIN J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rumba Rules
Jibaro Hasta el Hueso , and
Reviewed by: Jibaro Hasta el Hueso, and: Para Todos Ustedes, and: Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima, and: Quisqueya en el Hudson/Dominican Music in New York City Julian Gerstin Ecos de Borinquen. Jibaro Hasta el Hueso. 2003. Produced by Héctor Vega Druet and Daniel Sheehy, annotated by Daniel Sheehy. Smithsonian Folkways Recording, SFW 40506. One compact disc. Booklet (36 pages) in English and Spanish, photos. Los Pleneros de la 21. Para To…
Music and Revolution
Reviewed by: Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba Julian Gerstin Robin D. Moore. Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. Berkeley: University of California Press; Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, 2006. Xvi, 350 pp., photographs, brief transcriptions, appendix, glossary, bibliography and discography, index. Paper $24.95. ISBN: 0520247108. Several important books on aspects of contemporary Cuban music ha…
Tangled roots
Investigates descriptions of Afro-Caribbean dances in early chronicles and historical material. Author focuses on choreography, as well as on musical instruments and their use. He pays special attention to descriptions of the Martinican kalenda dance. He discusses descriptions from the 18th c. of black Caribbean dance in French and other colonies, by priests and others, of the kalenda as a couple dance within a ring, and descriptions of other wid…
Caribbean Voyage
Drumming for the Gods
Nationalizing Blackness
Caribbean Currents
Interaction and Improvisation between Dancers and Drummers in Martinican Bele
Many scholars of the arts of Africa and the African diaspora have noted the close connection of dance and music. African and diasporic musicians play music as movement, and dancers feel movement as music. In some cases, the mutuality of dance and music is tightly choreographed; in others, it is improvised yet still somehow achieved. However, there has been little published that analyzes how such mutuality is accomplished. The following article an…
Reputation in a Musical Scene
structed discourses such as those of politics, history, and identity. Anthony Seeger phrased this perspective as a in contrast to an earlier of (1987). During 1980s field also incorporated postmodernism's emerging critique of anthropology for ignoring politics embedded in symbolic production. Discussion of how global and national economics and ideologies touch even most music is now mainstream. Many works manage to do both-to show music making po…
Reputation in a Musical Scene
structed discourses such as those of politics, history, and identity. Anthony Seeger phrased this perspective as a in contrast to an earlier of (1987). During 1980s field also incorporated postmodernism's emerging critique of anthropology for ignoring politics embedded in symbolic production. Discussion of how global and national economics and ideologies touch even most music is now mainstream. Many works manage to do both-to show music making po…
Tangled roots
Investigates descriptions of Afro-Caribbean dances in early chronicles and historical material. Author focuses on choreography, as well as on musical instruments and their use. He pays special attention to descriptions of the Martinican kalenda dance. He discusses descriptions from the 18th c. of black Caribbean dance in French and other colonies, by priests and others, of the kalenda as a couple dance within a ring, and descriptions of other wid…
Interaction and Improvisation between Dancers and Drummers in Martinican Bele
Many scholars of the arts of Africa and the African diaspora have noted the close connection of dance and music. African and diasporic musicians play music as movement, and dancers feel movement as music. In some cases, the mutuality of dance and music is tightly choreographed; in others, it is improvised yet still somehow achieved. However, there has been little published that analyzes how such mutuality is accomplished. The following article an…
Interaction and Improvisation between Dancers and Drummers in Martinican Bele
Many scholars of the arts of Africa and the African diaspora have noted the close connection of dance and music. African and diasporic musicians play music as movement, and dancers feel movement as music. In some cases, the mutuality of dance and music is tightly choreographed; in others, it is improvised yet still somehow achieved. However, there has been little published that analyzes how such mutuality is accomplished. The following article an…
Reputation in a Musical Scene
structed discourses such as those of politics, history, and identity. Anthony Seeger phrased this perspective as a in contrast to an earlier of (1987). During 1980s field also incorporated postmodernism's emerging critique of anthropology for ignoring politics embedded in symbolic production. Discussion of how global and national economics and ideologies touch even most music is now mainstream. Many works manage to do both-to show music making po…
Caribbean Currents
Nationalizing Blackness
Drumming for the Gods
Caribbean Voyage
Tangled roots
Investigates descriptions of Afro-Caribbean dances in early chronicles and historical material. Author focuses on choreography, as well as on musical instruments and their use. He pays special attention to descriptions of the Martinican kalenda dance. He discusses descriptions from the 18th c. of black Caribbean dance in French and other colonies, by priests and others, of the kalenda as a couple dance within a ring, and descriptions of other wid…
Music and Revolution
Reviewed by: Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba Julian Gerstin Robin D. Moore. Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba. Berkeley: University of California Press; Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, 2006. Xvi, 350 pp., photographs, brief transcriptions, appendix, glossary, bibliography and discography, index. Paper $24.95. ISBN: 0520247108. Several important books on aspects of contemporary Cuban music ha…
Jibaro Hasta el Hueso , and
Reviewed by: Jibaro Hasta el Hueso, and: Para Todos Ustedes, and: Viento de Agua Unplugged: Materia Prima, and: Quisqueya en el Hudson/Dominican Music in New York City Julian Gerstin Ecos de Borinquen. Jibaro Hasta el Hueso. 2003. Produced by Héctor Vega Druet and Daniel Sheehy, annotated by Daniel Sheehy. Smithsonian Folkways Recording, SFW 40506. One compact disc. Booklet (36 pages) in English and Spanish, photos. Los Pleneros de la 21. Para To…
Rumba Rules
Art (6 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Cuban History and Society (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works)