Weekly Calendar
Module I Theory and development of the African Diaspora
Week 1 Introduction to the course
Gomez, Michael, “Diasporic Africa: A View from History” in Gomez, Michael A. 2006. Diasporic Africa: a reader. New York: New York University Press
Manning, P. (2009). “Ch.1 – Diaspora” found in The African Diaspora: A history through culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Week 2 Defining the African Diaspora
02/08/21
Paul Gilroy, “The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity” in Gilroy, Paul. 1993. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP
Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. 2008. The Challenges of Studying the African Diasporas. African Sociological Review12/2, 4-21
Kelley & Patterson, “Unfinished Migrations” African Studies Review 43, No. 1, Special Issue on the Diaspora (April 2000): 11-45.
Suggested Readings
Chivallon, Christine. 2002. “Beyond Gilroy’s Black Atlantic: The Experience of the African Diaspora.” Diaspora11/
Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe. “African Diasporas: Toward a Global History.” African Studies Review 53, no. 1 (2010): 1–19. doi:10.1353/arw.0.0274.
Week 3 The Making of an Atlantic World
02/15/21
Gomez, M. (2004). Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (New Approaches to African History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511814648 https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/10.1017/CBO9780511814648(Chapter 4-
Week 4
02/22/21 [NO CLASSES BREAK DAY 1]
Week 5 The Soundtrack of Pan Africanism
Special Guest Dr. Errol Montes Pizarro
03/01/21
Njemanze, Paul Obiyo Mbanaso & Njemanze, Paul Obiyo, “Pan-Africanism: Africa in the Minds and Deeds of Her Children in the Caribbean”, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, Vol. 20, 2011, pp. 152-165.
Agawu, Kofi, Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions, Routledge, Nueva York, 2003 (Chapter 3)
Week 6 Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America: searching for common ground
03/08/21
Roberts, John S., Black Music of Two Worlds: African, Caribbean, Latin, and African-American traditions, New York, Schirmer Books, 2nd edition, 1998. (Chapters 1 & 3)
Charters, Samuel. 2009. A language of song journeys in the musical world of the African diaspora. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press. [Selected Chapters]
Week 7 Music and the African Diaspora in the Americas: an ethnomusicological perspective
03/15/21
Melvin Butler, “Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora” in Olaniyan, Tejumola, and James H. Sweet. 2010. The African diaspora and the disciplines. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Robin Moore, “A Century and a Half of Scholarship on Afro-Latin American Music” in A. De la Fuente & G. Andrews (Eds.). 2018, Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction (Afro-Latin America, pp. 406-437). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316822883.011
Week 8
03/22/21 [NO CLASSES BREAK DAY 3]
Week 9 Music and the African Diaspora in Latin America: searching for common ground
03/29/21
Week 10 Globalization, Music and the (re)production of the African Diaspora I
04/05/21
Alleyne, Mike. 2008. “Globalization and Commercialization of Caribbean Music.” Popular Music History 3 (3): 247–73. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2009971409&site=eds-live.
Perry, Marc D. 2016. Negro soy yo: hip hop and raced citizenship in neoliberal Cuba. Durham: Duke University Press. (Chap. 1 & 2)
Week 11 Globalization, Music and the (re)production of the African Diaspora II
(The (re)territorialization of Hip-Hop in Brazil)
04/12/21
Pardue, Derek. 2008. Ideologies of marginality in Brazilian hip hop. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters, 2 & 3
Week 12 Dialogue with Blackness: Jazz in Latin America and the Caribbean
04/19/21
Karush Matthew B. 2012. “Blackness in Argentina: Jazz, Tango and Race Before Perón.” Past & Present, no. 216 (August): 215–45. doi:10.1093/pastj/gts008
The Hazards of Hybridity: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Mambo, and Revolution" in Borge, Jason. 2018. Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz. Duke University Press.
Week 13 Dialogue with Blackness: Jazz in Latin America and the Caribbean II
04/26/21
Washburne, Christopher. 2020. Latin jazz. The other jazz. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Selected Chapters]
Week 14 Blackness and Music in Colombia and Perú [Currulao Workshop/ José Martínez
05/03/21
Peter Wade. 1998. “Music, Blackness and National Identity: Three Moments in Colombian History.” Popular Music, no. 1: 1.
Birenbaum Quintero, Michael. 2019. Rites, Rights and Rhythms: A Genealogy of Musical Meaning in Colombia’s Black Pacific. Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199913923.001.000 (Chapter 3)
Feldman, Heidi Carolyn. 2008. Black rhythms of Peru: reviving African musical heritage in the Black Pacific. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. [Selected Chapters]
Week 15 Course Wrap-Up
05/10/21
Garcia, David F. 2017. Listening for Africa: freedom, modernity, and the logic of Black music's African origins. [Chapter 5 & Conclusion]
