Divine utterances : the performance of Afro-Cuban Santería

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Title:

Author:

Hagedorn, Katherine J.

ISBN:

9781560989226

9781560989479

Personal Author:

Hagedorn, Katherine J.

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution ; Chesham : Combined Academic, 2001.

Physical Description:

xvi, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

1. Notes on Fieldwork: Dreaming Ogun -- 2. El Espectaculo: Invitation to the Dance -- 3. Embodying the Sacred in Afro-Cuban Performance: Negotiating the Rules of Engagement -- 4. Blurring the Boundaries: Merging Sacred and Profane -- 5. The Birth of the Conjunto Folklorico -- 6. Sacred Crimes: Criminalizing the Sacred in Historical Perspective -- 7. Resolver and Religious Tourism in Cuba.

Subject Term:

Santeria music -- History and criticism.

Blacks -- Cuba -- Music -- History and criticism.

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Summary

This volume explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santeria and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. The author focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony.