[Linganth] Creolized Aurality

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
This Monday, Jérôme Camal
<https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/C/J/au38870974.html> is
discussing his book, Creolized Aurality, on the CaMP anthropology blog.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay
between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music.
Guadeloupean *gwoka *music—a secular, drum-based tradition—captures the
entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the
uneasy process of the island’s decolonization as an overseas territory of
France. In *Creolized Aurality,* Jérôme Camal demonstrates that musical
sounds and practices express the multiple—and often seemingly
contradictory—cultural belongings and political longings that characterize
postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial
activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform
for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic
solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French
state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices,
Camal argues, are “creolized auralities”—expressions of a culture both of
and against French coloniality and postcoloniality.
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