Michael Largey
Biographic Data
| ID | 88760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Largey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Largey |
| SIGNATURE | LARGEY M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recombinant Mythology and the Alchemy of Memory: Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Haiti
During the first United States occupation of Haiti, from 1915 to 1934, Haitian band composer Occide Jeanty wrote compositions for the Haitian Presidential Band that contained culturally encoded critiques of U.S. occupation forces. In his compositions, Jeanty invoked the legend of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the soldier who led Haiti to independence in 1804 and whose spirit was absorbed into the Vodou religion as a type of Ogou, or wa…
Ethnographic Transcription and Music Ideology in Haiti: The Music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber
In his study of Haitian political history, Michel-Rolph Trouillot observes that the Haitian peasantry is not isolated in Haiti's mountainous countryside, but has maintained an active and vital presence in the country's urban centers. Trouillot suggests that the "physical to-and-fro of the peasantry from the hinterland to the urban trenches means that it has come to occupy part of the urban social and cultural terrain" (1990, 114). Trouillot claim…
Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou
Politics on the Pavement: Haitian Rara as a Traditionalizing Process
Rara is a Haitian Lenten festival that features exuberant dancing and singing as well as strong connections to the Haitian traditional religion known as Vodou. This article examines Rara as a traditionalizing process that creates discursive space for lower-class Haitians to include themselves as agents in Haitian history and politics. By analyzing the products of Rara performances--song texts, street performances, and narratives about past Rara c…
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Dancing Spirits: Rhythms and Rituals of Haitian Vodun, the Rada Rite
Introduction Vodun: A Religious System and Way of Life The Music of the Rada Rite Drums, Drummers, and Oungenikon The Music of the Rada Battery The Song Texts in the Ritual Context Analysis of Song Tunes Dancing Spirits Appendix Glossary Selected Bibliography Selected Discography/Filmography Index
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Rethinking the Popular: Recent Essays on Caribbean Music and Identity
Composing a Haitian Cultural Identity: Haitian Elites, African Ancestry, and Musical Discourse
The development of misik savant ayisyen (Haitian classical or learned music) has been shaped by the changing attitudes of Haitian elites toward Haitian national identity, the predominantly rural Haitian masses, and the country's relationships with foreign powers.' With the formation of an elite class after the revolution of 1804, a distinctive interpretation of Haitian artistic production emerged that was initially based on French models of cultu…
Dancing Spirits: Rhythms and Rituals of Haitian Vodun, the Rada Rite
Introduction Vodun: A Religious System and Way of Life The Music of the Rada Rite Drums, Drummers, and Oungenikon The Music of the Rada Battery The Song Texts in the Ritual Context Analysis of Song Tunes Dancing Spirits Appendix Glossary Selected Bibliography Selected Discography/Filmography Index
Recombinant Mythology and the Alchemy of Memory: Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Haiti
During the first United States occupation of Haiti, from 1915 to 1934, Haitian band composer Occide Jeanty wrote compositions for the Haitian Presidential Band that contained culturally encoded critiques of U.S. occupation forces. In his compositions, Jeanty invoked the legend of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the soldier who led Haiti to independence in 1804 and whose spirit was absorbed into the Vodou religion as a type of Ogou, or wa…
Politics on the Pavement: Haitian Rara as a Traditionalizing Process
Rara is a Haitian Lenten festival that features exuberant dancing and singing as well as strong connections to the Haitian traditional religion known as Vodou. This article examines Rara as a traditionalizing process that creates discursive space for lower-class Haitians to include themselves as agents in Haitian history and politics. By analyzing the products of Rara performances--song texts, street performances, and narratives about past Rara c…
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Rethinking the Popular: Recent Essays on Caribbean Music and Identity
Composing a Haitian Cultural Identity: Haitian Elites, African Ancestry, and Musical Discourse
The development of misik savant ayisyen (Haitian classical or learned music) has been shaped by the changing attitudes of Haitian elites toward Haitian national identity, the predominantly rural Haitian masses, and the country's relationships with foreign powers.' With the formation of an elite class after the revolution of 1804, a distinctive interpretation of Haitian artistic production emerged that was initially based on French models of cultu…
Rethinking the Popular: Recent Essays on Caribbean Music and Identity
Dancing Spirits: Rhythms and Rituals of Haitian Vodun, the Rada Rite
Introduction Vodun: A Religious System and Way of Life The Music of the Rada Rite Drums, Drummers, and Oungenikon The Music of the Rada Battery The Song Texts in the Ritual Context Analysis of Song Tunes Dancing Spirits Appendix Glossary Selected Bibliography Selected Discography/Filmography Index
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Politics on the Pavement: Haitian Rara as a Traditionalizing Process
Rara is a Haitian Lenten festival that features exuberant dancing and singing as well as strong connections to the Haitian traditional religion known as Vodou. This article examines Rara as a traditionalizing process that creates discursive space for lower-class Haitians to include themselves as agents in Haitian history and politics. By analyzing the products of Rara performances--song texts, street performances, and narratives about past Rara c…
Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou
Ethnographic Transcription and Music Ideology in Haiti: The Music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber
In his study of Haitian political history, Michel-Rolph Trouillot observes that the Haitian peasantry is not isolated in Haiti's mountainous countryside, but has maintained an active and vital presence in the country's urban centers. Trouillot suggests that the "physical to-and-fro of the peasantry from the hinterland to the urban trenches means that it has come to occupy part of the urban social and cultural terrain" (1990, 114). Trouillot claim…
Recombinant Mythology and the Alchemy of Memory: Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Haiti
During the first United States occupation of Haiti, from 1915 to 1934, Haitian band composer Occide Jeanty wrote compositions for the Haitian Presidential Band that contained culturally encoded critiques of U.S. occupation forces. In his compositions, Jeanty invoked the legend of Haitian general Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the soldier who led Haiti to independence in 1804 and whose spirit was absorbed into the Vodou religion as a type of Ogou, or wa…
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