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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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