“Mek Some Noise”Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad

Rommen, Timothy

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“…He goes on to argue that archives are “contested remainders whose ongoing inscription and reordering changes what those objects mean, and do ” (Collins , 19; emphasis added). Anthropological focus on sound and music has emphasized their power to evoke strong feelings of place, community, and religiosity (Erlmann ; Feld ; Hirschkind ; Rommen ). Exploring musical genres in light of heritage projects confronts us with the poetic and embodied qualities of music that do not easily allow people to stabilize its meaning (Born ).…”

Section: Secularism Semiotic Ideologies and Cultural Heritagementioning

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Transposing Brazilian Carnival: Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Secularism in Rio de Janeiro

Oosterbaan

2017

American Anthropologist

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This article discusses the rise of evangelical carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro in relation to spectacular carnival parades that feature Afro-Brazilian religious elements. The article exposes divergent intersections of religion and cultural heritage in Brazilian carnival. The first intersection aims to affirm the intrinsic connection between samba enredo carnival music and Afro-Brazilian religion by means of cultural heritage narratives, and the second type employs similar narratives to undo this connection, attempting to make samba enredo accessible to evangelical religious performance. The article demonstrates the important role secularism plays in upholding distinctions between "culture" and "religion," and shows how evangelical carnival groups engage with such historical formations by means of estratégia (strategy)-evangelical performances in cultural styles that are commonly perceived as "worldly." This estratégia depends on and proposes a particular set of semiotic ideologies that allows for the separation of cultural form and spiritual content. Efforts to open up "national" cultural styles to different religious groups in light of multicultural politics are laudable, but advocates of such politics should keep in mind that cultural heritage regimes concerning samba push in the opposite direction and support a different set of semiotic ideologies. [religion, carnival, secularism, cultural heritage, Brazil] RESUMEN Este artículo discute el aumento de los desfiles carnavalescos evangélicos en Río de Janeiro comparado con los desfiles carnavalescos espectaculares que exhiben elementos religiosos afro-brasileños. El artículo expone intersecciones divergentes de religión y patrimonio cultural en el carnaval brasileño. La primera intersección tiene el propósito de afirmar la conexión intrínseca entre la música de carnaval samba enredo y la religión afro-brasileña por medio de narrativas de patrimonio cultural, y el segundo tipo emplea narrativas similares para deshacer esta conexión, intentando hacer la samba enredo accesible a las presentaciones religiosas evangélicas. El artículo demuestra el importante papel que el secularismo juega en mantener las distinciones entre "cultura" y "religión" y muestra cómo los grupos carnavalescos evangélicos involucran tales formaciones históricas por medio de una estratégia (estrategia)-presentaciones evangélicas en estilos culturales que son comúnmente percibidos como "mundanos". Esta estratégia depende de, y propone un juego particular de ideologías semióticas que permite la separación de la forma cultural y el contenido espiritual. Los esfuerzos para abrir los estilos culturales "nacionales" a diferentes grupos religiosos a la luz de la política multicultural son laudables, pero defensores de tal política deberían tener presente que los regímenes de patrimonio cultural concernientes a la samba empujan en la dirección opuesta y apoyan un diferente juego de ideologías semióticas. [religión, carnaval, secularismo, patrimonio cultural, Brasil]

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Section: Secularism Semiotic Ideologies and Cultural Heritagementioning

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Transposing Brazilian Carnival: Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Secularism in Rio de Janeiro

Oosterbaan

2017

American Anthropologist

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“…Since the early years of the discipline, a main ethnomusicological preoccupation has been the analysis of social style as it relates to social organisation. During the 1950s-1980s, ethnomusicologists invoked functionalist, structuralist and other models to understand how style relates to society (e.g., Feld 1982;Keil 1979;McAllester 1954;Merriam 1964;Turino 1993), but more recent work avoids neatly cohering models in favour of more fluid accounts of performers' use of style to articulate particular social positions (e.g., Rommen 2007;Sherinian 2007). In that spirit, I explore how airs are enlisted in performance to narrate class, inclusion and diasporic identity.…”

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BollywoodBhajans: Style as ‘Air’ in an Indian-Guyanese Twice-migrant Community

Schultz¹

2014

Ethnomusicology Forum

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“…16 Of the songs on this list, approximately 90% fall into the repertory known as 'praise & worship music', a mass-mediated congregational song genre produced by the transnational evangelical media industry in North America, the UK and Australia and the product of an increasingly global Christian popular culture (Hackett 1998;Marshall-Fratani 1998;Butler 2005;Rommen 2007;Nekola 2011;Ingalls 2011 and forthcoming). 17 Parade float song selection overwhelmingly reflects the music of the 'Christian culture' that Solomon sought to avoid; however, most parade music leaders emphasised ways in which these songs enabled unified singing and reflected a unity of practice across an area of disparate church communities.…”

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Singing praise in the streets: Performing Canadian Christianity through public worship in Toronto's Jesus in the City parade

Ingalls

2012

Culture and Religion

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“Mek Some Noise”Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad

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Transposing Brazilian Carnival: Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Secularism in Rio de Janeiro

Transposing Brazilian Carnival: Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Secularism in Rio de Janeiro

BollywoodBhajans: Style as ‘Air’ in an Indian-Guyanese Twice-migrant Community

Singing praise in the streets: Performing Canadian Christianity through public worship in Toronto's Jesus in the City parade

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