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Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica
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ISBN: 0060916494 Year: 1990 Publisher: San Bernardino (CA) : The Borgo Press,

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The last days of Louisiana Red
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ISBN: 0394491882 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York, NY : Random House,


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Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith : Haitian Religion in Miami
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ISBN: 1479802670 9781479802678 9780814777084 0814777082 9780814777091 0814777090 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Beginning in the late 1970's and early 1980s,significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently arriving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. Together, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen. Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a historical and ethnographic study of Haitian religion in immigrant communities, based on fieldwork in both Miami and Haiti, as well as extensive archival research. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, Rey and Stepick explore Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, suggesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. This meticulously researched and vibrantly written book contributes to the growing body of literature on religion among new immigrants,as well as providing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities.


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Transforming Vòdún : musical change and postcolonial healing in Benin's jazz and brass band music
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ISBN: 0472903284 0472075969 Year: 2023 Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians' professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.

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