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Feldman's Black Rhythms of Peru released by Wesleyan University Press

 

 

 
 

Published: December 8, 2006

   
 


Wesleyan University Press announces the release of a new book, Black Rhythms of Peru: Reviving African Musical Heritage in the Black Pacific, by Heidi Carolyn Feldman.

In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru's African musical heritage to Lima's theatrical stages. The revival forged new links to the past in order to celebrate-and to some extent recreate-Black culture in Peru. In this groundbreaking study of the Afro-Peruvian revival and its aftermath, Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the Black Pacific, which she describes as a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America's Pacific coast. Feldman's ethnographic narrative documents the memory projects of charismatic Afro-Peruvian revival artists and companies, including José Durand, Nicomedes and Victoria Santa Cruz, and Perú Negro, culminating with Susana Baca's entry onto the global world music stage in the 1990s.

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