Orchestre Tropicana d'Haiti - Nou Renmen Duvalier

Dechoukaj en musique : La chute de la dictature haïtienne : Culture populaire et politique / Dechoukaj in music : The end of dictatorship in Haiti : Popular and political culture
AVERILL G.; BOUYSSOU R. (Traducteur) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s), New York University, ETATS-UNIS
Résumé / Abstract
Popular music (defined for our purposes as music which is neither erudite nor traditional or even folk) has played an important political - and hardly unequivocal - role in Haiti. Some of its styles and modalities served Duvalier's dictatorship; others (or sometimes the very same ones) served the democratic movement. Jean-Bertrand Aristide is himself the author of songs and often spread his message through this means. The study of the multiple interventions of this music in the unfolding of political events from 1985 to 1995 highlights these very diverse modes, in which musical style can he as significant as text