This compelling and personal exploration of Afro-Cuban Santer???a comes with a CD featuring 20 mesmerizing songs from prominent Afro-Cuban musicians that embody the book's themes In Divine Utterances , Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santer???a and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state ...
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This compelling and personal exploration of Afro-Cuban Santer???a comes with a CD featuring 20 mesmerizing songs from prominent Afro-Cuban musicians that embody the book's themes In Divine Utterances , Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santer???a and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folkl???rico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics, and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades a secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony. Hagedorn's analysis is deeply informed by her experiences in Cuba as a woman, scholar, and apprentice bat??? drummer. She argues that constructions of race and gender, the politics of pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, the economics of tourism, and contemporary practices within Santer???a have contributed to a blurring of boundaries betwen the sacred and the folkloric. As both modes now vie for primacy in Cuba's burgeoning tourist trade, what had once been the music of a marginalized group is now a cultural expression of national pride. The compact disc that accompanies the book includes examples of twenty songs to the orichas , or Afro-Cuban deities, performed by prominent musicians, including L???zaro Ros, Francisco Aguabella, Alberto Villarreal, and Zenaida Armenteros.
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