Robin D Moore

Violín

Mediating Musical Style and Devotional Practice in 21st-Century Cuba

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Afrodescendant religious music in the Caribbean and Latin America typically foregrounds drumming and centuries-old songs of praise to spirit deities. In recent years, a new form of worship, known as a violín or toque de violín, which features the violin alongside the guitar, electronic piano, and/or other instruments commonly associated with popular music, has gained popularity in Cuba. Violines can be understood as loosely defined spaces for performance that developed in a context of cultural oppression and dominance. They can be viewed as a concession to Eurocentric and secular tastes, or as a blackening/creolizing of those same practices, or both. They express religious faith in pluralistic ways, incorporating repertoire from various Black religions alongside influences from folk Catholicism, and classical, commercial, and folkloric music. Drawing from an encyclopedic knowledge of Cuban music, ethnographic work, and interviews, Robin D. Moore's groundbreaking book is the first to explore the compelling violín ceremony in detail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009584012
• ISBN-10: 1009584014
• Artikelnr.: 75245301

Autorenporträt

Robin D. Moore is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the editor and co-author of Music and Revolution. Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba (2006), Musics of Latin America (2012), College Music Curricula for a New Century (2017), and Fernando Ortiz on Music (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Situating violines
3. Spiritism and Violines Espirituales
4. Violines a Ochún and Orisha Praise
5. Performance dynamics in Toques de Violín
6. Violines abroad
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.