Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture

320 Pages·2000·22.26 MB·English

by  Brenda F. Berrian

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Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
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French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture
Brenda F. Berrian
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
brenda F. berrian is professor of Africana Studies, English, and Women’s Studies at the
University of Pittsburgh. She has been a visiting professor in both Europe and Africa and is
the author of Africa, Harlem, Haiti: The Great Black Cultural Revolution and coeditor of
Bibliography of Women Writers from the Caribbean: 1831-1986.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2000 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2000
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN (cloth): 0-226-04455-6
ISBN (paper): 0-226-04456-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berrian, Brenda L
Awakening spaces: Lrench Caribbean popular songs, music, and culture / Brenda L
Berrian.
p. cm. — (Chicago studies in ethnomusicology)
Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.
ISBN 0-226-04455-6 (alk. paper)—isbn 0-226-04456-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Popular music—Martinique—History and criticism. 2. Popular music—
Guadeloupe—History and criticism. I. Title. II. Series.
ML3486.A1 B47 2000
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American
National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library
Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.
To the memory of my father,
Albert Harry Berrian, Sr.
To my mother,
Mary Miles Berrian
To my sister-in-spirit,
Shawna Moore-Madlangbayan
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