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Book SynopsisIn Styling Blackness in Chile, Juan Eduardo Wolf explores the multiple ways that Black individuals in Arica have performed music and dance to frame their Blackness in relationship to other groups of performers—a process he calls styling.
Trade ReviewWolf's work is exemplary as he critically addresses twenty-first-century deliberations on identity and cultural diversity across the African diaspora.
-- Yvonne Daniel, Smith College * Journal of American Folklore *
Wolf 's text is a solid contribution to current narratives of self-determination and positioning of Chile's Afro-descendant population. The book highlights the achievements that music and dance represent for social and cultural processes in Chile, which makes it useful to understanding other Afro-American narratives across the Americas.
-- Fernando Palacios Mateos * Ethnomusicology *
The book itself will not only prove useful for academics interested in the music of Chile, Latin America, the African Diaspora, Blackness, and in semiotics, but is also written in a style that is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and above
-- P. Judkins Wellington - City University of New York * Journal of Folklore Research *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Accessing Audiovisual Materials
Introduction: Of Stereotypes and Styling
Part I: Styling Blackness as Afro-descendant
1. The Disappearance of Blackness and the Emergence of Afro-descendants in Chile
2. Tumbe Carnaval: Styling Afro-descendant
3. Self-Understanding as Motivation for Styling Afro-descendant
Part II: Other Ways of Styling Blackness
An Interlude on the Importance of Styling Blackness and the African Diaspora
4. Styling Blackness as Criollo: Dancing the Intimate
5. Styling Moreno: Taking Pride in Decent Steps
6. Styling Blackness as Indígena: Racial Order as Carnivalesque?
7. A Question of Success: Carnivalization and the Future of Styling
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