Creolization as Cultural Creativity

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Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one any other. Creolization is presented as a powerful marker of identity Within the postcolonial Creole societies of Latin The united states, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, in addition to a universal process that may happen anywhere cultures come into contact.

An bizarre selection of cultures from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, the southern United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Réunion, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Suriname, Jamaica, and Sierra Leone are discussed in these essays.

Essayists address theoretical dimensions of creolization and present in-depth field studies. Topics include adaptations of the Gombe drum over the course of its migration from Jamaica to West Africa; uses of “ritual piracy” involved Within the appropriation of Catholic symbols by Puerto Rican brujos; the subversion of official culture and authority through playful and combative use of “creole talk” in Argentine literature and verbal arts; the mislabeling and trivialization (“toy blindness”) of objects appropriated by African Americans Within the American South; the strategic use of creole techniques among storytellers inside the islands of the Indian Ocean; and the creolized character of New Orleans and its music. Within the introductory essay the editors address both local and universal dimensions of creolization and argue for the centrality of its expressive manifestations for creolization scholarship.

Creolization as Cultural Creativity draws from the disciplines of folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, history, and subject matter culture studies. Contributors include Roger D. Abrahams, Robert Baron, Kenneth Bilby, Ana C. Cara, J. Michael Dash, Grey Gundaker, Lee Haring, Raquel Romberg, Nick Spitzer, and John F. Szwed.

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