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- Title
Ethnographic Transcription and Music Ideology in Haiti: The Music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber.
- Authors
Largey, Michael
- Abstract
Presents an analysis of the music of composer and ethnographer Werner Anton Jaegerhuber, which focused on the political and economic relationships between rural peasant majority and urban elite minority in Haiti. Attempts of Jaegerhuber to distance himself from the sensationalist accounts of Vodou music in foreign media and to universalize Haitian traditional music; Personal background of Jaegerhuber; Development of an idiosyncratic ethnographic method by Jaegerhuber to process Haitian folksongs into concert pieces; Theory on the relationship of art to folklore.
- Subjects
HAITI; MUSIC; JAEGERHUBER, Werner Anton; PEASANTS; RURAL geography; CITIES &; towns
- Publication
Latin American Music Review / Revista de Música Latinoamericana, 2004, Vol 25, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0163-0350
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lat.2004.0005