Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black Pacific

Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia's Black PacificColombia has the largest black population in the Spanish speaking world, but Afro Colombians have long remained at the nation's margins. Their recent irruption into the political, social, and cultural spheres is tied to appeals to cultural difference, dramatized by the traditional music of Colombia's majority black Southern Pacific region, often called currulao. Yet that music remains largely unknown and unstudied despite its complexity, aesthetic

As vital now as when it was first published in 1977

refuses to surrender without a fierce battle

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The result is a book that is surprising and transforming

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The Network of Black Organizers (NOBO) has gathered the first comtemporary collection of Black Prison Movement voices

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Four trained assassins come out

The testimonies gathered here present a sweeping personal history of SNCC: early sit-ins

When Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination

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ALI and his crew move their operations to Las Vegas where the underworld is even more seedy than the place they just left