Haiti Singing
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Haiti Singing
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Author : Harold Courlander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Haiti Singing written by Harold Courlander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Dance categories.
The Singing Turtle
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Author : Philippe Thoby-Marcelin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
The Singing Turtle written by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Tales categories.
Haiti Singing
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Author : Harold Courlander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Haiti Singing written by Harold Courlander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Music categories.
A Day For The Hunter A Day For The Prey
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Author : Gage Averill
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Day For The Hunter A Day For The Prey written by Gage Averill and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Music categories.
The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle—one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused. Averill explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz, konpa, mini-djaz, new generation, and roots music. He examines the complex interaction of music with power in contexts such as honorific rituals, sponsored street celebrations, Carnival, and social movements that span the political spectrum. With firsthand accounts by musicians, photos, song texts, and ethnographic descriptions, this book explores the profound manifestations of power and song in the day-to-day efforts of ordinary Haitians to rise above political repression.
Taking Haiti
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Author : Mary A. Renda
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2004-07-21
Taking Haiti written by Mary A. Renda and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-21 with History categories.
The U.S. invasion of Haiti in July 1915 marked the start of a military occupation that lasted for nineteen years--and fed an American fascination with Haiti that flourished even longer. Exploring the cultural dimensions of U.S. contact with Haiti during the occupation and its aftermath, Mary Renda shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of U.S. imperialism. At the heart of this emerging culture, Renda argues, was American paternalism, which saw Haitians as wards of the United States. She explores the ways in which diverse Americans--including activists, intellectuals, artists, missionaries, marines, and politicians--responded to paternalist constructs, shaping new versions of American culture along the way. Her analysis draws on a rich record of U.S. discourses on Haiti, including the writings of policymakers; the diaries, letters, songs, and memoirs of marines stationed in Haiti; and literary works by such writers as Eugene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. Pathbreaking and provocative, Taking Haiti illuminates the complex interplay between culture and acts of violence in the making of the American empire.
Haiti And The United States
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Author : J. Michael Dash
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Haiti And The United States written by J. Michael Dash and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Imaginative literature, argues Michael Dash, does not merely reflect, but actively influences historical events. He demonstrates this by a close examination of the relations between Haiti and the United States through the imaginative literature of both countries. The West's mythification of Haiti is a strategy used to justify either ostracism or domination, a process traced here from the nineteenth-century until it emerges with a voyeuristic fierceness in the 1960s. In an effort to resist these stereotypes, Haitian literature becomes a subversive manoeuvre permitting Haitians to 'rewrite' themselves. The Unites States 'invented' Haiti as a land of savagery and mystery, a source of evil and shame. Weaving together text and historical context, Dash discusses the durability of these images, which continue to shape official policy and popular attitudes today.
Area Handbook For Haiti
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Author : Thomas E. Weil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Area Handbook For Haiti written by Thomas E. Weil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Haiti categories.
General study of Haiti - covers historical and geographical aspects, demographic aspects and social structures, religion, language, education, cultural factors, the political system, international relations, the economic structure, agriculture, industry, transport, trade, financing aspects, defence, etc. Bibliography pp. 159 to 178, maps and statistical tables.
Red And Black In Haiti
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Author : Matthew J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2009-05-15
Red And Black In Haiti written by Matthew J. Smith and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-15 with History categories.
In 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political history of postoccupation Haiti, Matthew Smith argues that the period from 1934 until the rise of dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to the presidency in 1957 constituted modern Haiti's greatest moment of political promise. Smith emphasizes the key role that radical groups, particularly Marxists and black nationalists, played in shaping contemporary Haitian history. These movements transformed Haiti's political culture, widened political discourse, and presented several ideological alternatives for the nation's future. They were doomed, however, by a combination of intense internal rivalries, pressures from both state authorities and the traditional elite class, and the harsh climate of U.S. anticommunism. Ultimately, the political activism of the era failed to set Haiti firmly on the path to a strong independent future.
Voodoo In Haiti
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Author : Alfred Métraux
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-21
Voodoo In Haiti written by Alfred Métraux and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Fiction categories.
Voodoo in Haiti is a masterwork of observation and description by one of the most distinguished anthropologists of the twentieth century. Alfred Métraux has written a rich and lasting study of the lives and rituals of the Haitian mambos and adepts, and of the history and origins of their religion. It is an accurate and engaging account of one of the most fascinating and misunderstood cultures in the world. “Métraux’s book is a landmark in the serious study of Afro-Atlantic religion. The breadth and subtlety of its approach is such that it remains an essential classic of Afro-American ethnology.”—Robert Farris Thompson, professor of art history, Yale University, author of Flash of the Spirit “This is a work deserving of wide readership, and assured of it by its understanding and appeal.”—Library Journal “This book gives what is surely the most authoritative general account of that complex of belief and practice called vaudou available in the literature....No other observer of vaudou has contributed to its study the exquisite documentation of detail that marks the work of Alfred Métraux.”—Sidney W. Mintz, professor of anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Paramilitarism And The Assault On Democracy In Haiti
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Author : Jeb Sprague
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-08
Paramilitarism And The Assault On Democracy In Haiti written by Jeb Sprague and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Political Science categories.
In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial and political backers, in Haiti but also in the United States and the Dominican Republic. The product of years of original research, this book draws on over fifty interviews—some of which placed the author in severe danger—and more than 11,000 documents secured through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Haiti today, and is a vivid reminder of how democratic struggles in poor countries are often met with extreme violence organized at the behest of capital.