Michael Largey: Vodou Nation. Haitian Art Music and Cultural Nationalism, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago a Londýn 2006, XVI + 283 p.
2012
Abstract
A review of a book by an American ethnomusicologist Michael Largey dealing with Haitian nationalism and a construction of the notion of "vodou nation" and studying it through the process of gradual adoption of the rural vodou rituals' musical features into the urban frankophone high culture of haitian classical music in relation to the U.S. occupation and the Afro-American intelectual influences upon the Haitian elites in the first half of the 20th century. The topic is dealt with using several cultural anthropological concepts, e. g. cultural nationalism (Turino), cultural intimacy (Herzfeld), diasporic cosmopolitism (GIlroy) etc.