{"product_id":"africanness-in-action-essentialism-and-musical-imaginations-of-africa-in-brazil-9780197549551","title":"Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Juan Diego Díaz\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnomusicology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen many people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba and, more importantly, essentialized notions\u003cbr\u003eabout Africa which have been fueled over centuries of contact between the West, Africa, and the African diaspora. These notions, of course, tend to reduce and often portray Africa and the diaspora as primitive, exotic, and monolithic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAfricanness in Action\u003c\/em\u003e, author Juan Diego D�az explores this dynamic through the perspectives of Black musicians in Bahia, Brazil, a site imagined by many as a diasporic epicenter of African survivals and purity. Black musicians from Bahia, D�az argues, assert Afro-Brazilian identities, promote\u003cbr\u003esocial change, and critique racial inequality by creatively engaging essentialized tropes about African music and culture. Instead of reproducing these notions, musicians demonstrate agency by strategically emphasizing or downplaying them.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889094705303,"sku":"9780197549551","price":11598.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197549551.webp?v=1781174177","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/africanness-in-action-essentialism-and-musical-imaginations-of-africa-in-brazil-9780197549551","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}