The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart - Caribbean Studies Series - Jan Brokken - Books - University Press of Mississippi - 9781628461855 - January 30, 2015
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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart - Caribbean Studies Series

Jan Brokken

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The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart - Caribbean Studies Series

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this book, based on notes he took while living on Curaçao from 1993 to 2002.

Anyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean music and music history will be amply rewarded with this Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of creolization. On Curaçao, the history and legacy of slavery shaped culture and music, affecting all the New World. Brokken's portraits of prominent Dutch Antillean composers are interspersed with cultural and music history. He puts the Dutch Caribbean's contributions into a broader context by also examining the nineteenth-century works by pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk from New Orleans and Manuel Saumell from Cuba. Brokken explores the African component of Dutch Antillean music--examining the history of the rhythm and music known as tambú as well as American jazz pianist Chick Corea's fascination with the tumba rhythm from Curaçao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch Caribbean adaptations of European dance forms have shifted from a classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 30, 2015
ISBN13 9781628461855
Publishers University Press of Mississippi
Pages 210
Dimensions 222 × 146 × 25 mm   ·   414 g
Language English  
Translator Rollins, Scott

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