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Article: Ethnographic transcription and music ideology in Haiti: the music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber.(Critical Essay)
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- Latin American Music Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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In his study of Haitian political history, Michel-Rolph Trouillot observes that the Haitian peasantry is not isolated in Haiti's mountainous countryside, but has maintained an active and vital presence in the country's urban centers. Trouillot suggests that the "physical to-and-fro of the peasantry from the hinterland to the urban trenches means that it has come to occupy part of the urban social and cultural terrain" (1990, 114). Trouillot claims that:
while the economic and political divisions [between elites and
peasants] may be reminiscent of trench warfare, the cultural
relations between the classes are more reminiscent of a guerrilla
war. The ...