Power In Haiti Research Articles

A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

Day for the Hunter,. Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Gage Averill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xxix. 276 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, discography, interviews, photographs, index.

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Gage Averill. A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Peter Bellwood, James Fox and Daryl Tryon (eds). The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. James Fox and Clifford Sather (eds). Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Eyal Ben‐Ari. Body Projects in Japanese Childcare. Francesca Bray. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Susan Brownell. Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. A.T. Dalfovo. Lugbara Proverbs. Robbie E. Davis‐Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent (eds). Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives. Anne E. Figert. Women and the Ownership of PMS: The Structuring of a Psychiatric Disorder. J. Goodman, P.E. Lovejoy and A. Sherratt (eds). Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology. Abdellah Hammoudi. Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism. Chris Healey and David Mearns (eds). Remaking Maluku ‐ Social Transformation in Eastern Indonesia. Gail Hershatter. Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth‐Century Shanghai. Sharon E. Hutchinson. Nuer Dilemmas: Coping with Money, War and the State. Anastasia N. Karakasidou. Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia 1870–1990. Stephen Muecke. No Road (bitumen all the way). Geoffrey A. Oddie. Popular Religion, Elites and Reform: Hook‐Swinging and its Prohibition in Colonial India, 1800–1894. M. Picard and R. E. Wood (eds). Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies. Veronica Strang. Uncommon Ground: Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Values.

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey. Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey. Popular Music and Power in Haiti

A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: popular music and power in Haiti

A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: popular music and power in Haiti

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti

The history of Haiti has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords, but there has also been a history of resistance and sometimes triumph. This study aims to show that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been a important element in the struggle, in which power, politics and resistance have been inextricably fused. The text explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz, konpa, mini-djaz, new generation, and roots music. Averill examines the complex interaction of music with power in contexts such as honorific rituals, sponsored street celebrations, Carnival, and social movements spanning the political spectrum. With first-hand accounts by musicians, photographs, song texts and ethnographic descriptions, this book examines the profound manifestations of power and song in the day-to-day efforts of ordinary Haitians to rise above political repression.