ISBN: PB: 9780226631776,
ISBN: HB: 9780226631639,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2019
256 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 7 line drawings
In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music – a secular, drum-based tradition – captures the entangled histories of French colonization...