Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean

by Njoroge Njoroge and Njoroge M. Njoroge

Book Overview

In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge M. Njoroge highlights connections among the production, performance, and reception of popular music at critical historical junctures in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author sifts different origins and styles to place socio-musical movements into a larger historical framework.

Calypso reigned during the turbulent interwar period and the ensuing crises of capitalism. The Cuban rumba/son complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496806891
• ISBN13: 9781496806895
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"