Roots in Reverse

Roots in Reverse explores how Latin music contributed to the formation of the n�gritude movement in the 1930s. Taking Senegal and Cuba as its primary research areas, this work uses oral histories, participant observation, and archival research to examine the ways Afro-Cuban music has influenced Senegalese debates about cultural and political citizenship and modernity. Shain argues that the trajectory of Afro-Cuban music in twentieth century Senegal illuminates many dimensions of that nation's cultural history such as gender relations, generational competition and conflict, debates over cosmopolitanism and hybridity, the role of nostalgia in Senegalese national culture and diasporic identities. More than just a new form of musical enjoyment, Afro-Cuban music provided listeners with a tool for creating a public sphere free from European and North American cultural hegemony.

Roots in Reverse exploreaza modul in care muzica latina a contribuit la formarea miscarii ngritude in anii 1930. Luand Senegal si Cuba drept principalele sale domenii de cercetare, aceasta lucrare foloseste istorii orale, observarea participantilor si cercetari arhivistice pentru a examina modul in care muzica afro-cubaneza a influentat dezbaterile senegaleze despre cetatenia culturala si politica si modernitatea.