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Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora / Elizabeth McAlister.

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Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou...

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Main Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Rara Festival > Songs and music > History and criticism.
Vodou music > Haiti > History and criticism.
Folk music > Haiti > History and criticism.
Folk songs, Creole > Haiti > History and criticism.
Haiti > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Haiti > Social conditions > 1971-
Folk music.
Folk songs, Creole.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions.
Vodou music.
Haiti.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: ML3565 .M384 2002eb
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