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Performing Africa: Memory, Tradition...

Washington, Giavanni ReShae.

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Performing Africa: Memory, Tradition, and Resistance in the Leimert Park Drum Circle.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Performing Africa: Memory, Tradition, and Resistance in the Leimert Park Drum Circle./
作者:	Washington, Giavanni ReShae.
面頁冊數:	171 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-09A(E).
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3564194
ISBN:	9781303129100

Performing Africa: Memory, Tradition, and Resistance in the Leimert Park Drum Circle.
Washington, Giavanni ReShae.

Performing Africa: Memory, Tradition, and Resistance in the Leimert Park Drum Circle. - 171 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2013.

This dissertation examines contemporary communal responses to the cultural trauma of slavery, specifically, how the participants in the Leimert Park Drum Circle in South Central Los Angeles perform memories and traditions to construct and re-locate an imaginary known as "Africa." Leimert Park Drum Circle participants, or more aptly, "cultural actors," have assembled in a distinctly African-centered gathering nearly every Sunday for the last sixteen years. Situated in Los Angeles' larger West African drum and dance community, the Leimert Park Drum Circle acts as parchment on which primarily African American participants deploy their bodies as tools to inscribe their "African memories" and "African traditions.".

ISBN: 9781303129100Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Performing Africa: Memory, Tradition, and Resistance in the Leimert Park Drum Circle.
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