Parameters and Peripheries of Culture
Interpreting Maroon Music and Dance in Paramaribo, Suriname
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780819579546
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2020
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 25 images, 15 tables and graphs
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9780819579553
Pub Date: 02 Jun 2020
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 25 images, 15 tables and graphs
Description:
How do people in an intensely multicultural city live alongside one another while maintaining clear boundaries? This question is at the core of Parameters and Peripheries of Culture, which illustrates how the Maroons (descendants of escaped slaves) of Suriname, on the northern coast of South America, have used culture-representational performance to sustain their communities within Paramaribo, the capital. Focusing on three collectives known locally as “cultural groups,” which specialize in the music and dance traditions of the Maroons, it marks a vital contribution to knowledge about the cultural map of the African diaspora in South America, Latin America, and the Caribbean.