1st Edition
Cabo Verdean Rhythms Kolá San Jon, Spatialization, and the Performance of Creolidade
By Martin Ringsmut
Copyright 2025
220 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
40 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Cabo Verdean Rhythms examines the rhythms, movements, and performances of Kolá San Jon, a performative tradition central to Cabo Verde’s Festas Juninas, as a lens for understanding the ongoing negotiations of social and cultural boundaries in Cabo Verde.
The book examines Kolá San Jon as a site of spatialization and creolization, processes that are closely linked to the colonial and... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Enter the Garden of the Hesperides
Chapter 2: Performing Creolidade
Chapter 3: Barlavento Constellations
Chapter 4: Rhythms of Belonging
Chapter 5: San Jon Revoltiód
Chapter 6: The Walking Community
Chapter 7: The Weakness of San Jon
Chapter 8: Conclusion – The Rhythms of Kolá San Jon
References
Index
Biography
Martin Ringsmut is a postdoctoral University Assistant for Ethnomusicology at the University of Vienna, Austria.
