Events at Stanford
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15:35 Oct 29, 2021
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 3:30 PM. Location: LIVE-STREAMED HERE Stanford CLAS, UC Davis' Hemispheric Institute on the Americas & SJSU's Department of World Languages and Literatures present the Conversations with Latin American Authors series: Africanness in Action: Essentialism and Musical Imaginations of Africa in Brazil Author Talk By: Juan Diego Díaz, Assistant Professor, UC Davis Comments by: Juan Eduardo Wolf, Associate Professor, University of Oregon Book abstract: When people think of African music, the first ideas that come to mind are often of rhythm, drums, and dancing. These perceptions are rooted in emblematic African and African-derived genres such as West African drumming, funk, salsa, or samba and, more importantly, essentialized notions about Africa which have been fueled over centuries of contact between the "West," Africa, and the African diaspora. These notions, of course, reduce and often portray Africa and the diaspora as primitive, exotic, and monolithic. In Africanness in Acti...