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Divine Utterances:the Performance Of afro-Cuban Santeria
[Paperback - 2001]
katherine j. hagedorn
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Category: Religion
Sub-category: Religions-others
Additional Category: Music
Publisher: Smithsonian Books | ISBN: 9781560989479 | Pages: 312
Shipping Weight: .459 | Dimensions: 6.1 x .7 x 9 inches

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This compelling and personal exploration of Afro-Cuban Santería 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 Santería 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 Folklórico 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 batá 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 Santería 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 Lázaro Ros, Francisco Aguabella, Alberto Villarreal, and Zenaida Armenteros.

About the Author

Katherine J. Hagedorn is associate professor of music at Pomona College.

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