Event Description
Many scholars have traced the momentous historical consequences of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), seeking to redraw Euro-American maps of the revolutionary era, complicate the relation of imperial center to colonized periphery, and historicize modern categories of race and nation. But research into the varied and vibrant musical cultures of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian revolutionary period, and the subsequent global dispersion and transformation of these cultures, are sparser, especially when it comes to Afro-diasporic traditions. The movement of thousands of French- and Creole-speaking refugees and migrants from Haiti kindled an explosion of musical genres whose echoes continue to resound today. Indeed, the mass migration of peoples produced by the Haitian Revolution could be described as a musical event of near hemispheric magnitude.
This conference brings together the latest scholarship on this vital part of the colonial and postcolonial sonic archive, to create new, distinctively musical stories about the Americas and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
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Speakers
Laurent Dubois, University of Virginia.
Bernard Carnier, Université des Antilles.
Marlene Daut, Yale.
Henry Stoll, University of Michigan.
Ben Barson, Bucknell University.
Grete Viddal, Tulane University.
Claude Dauphin, Université de Québec à Montréal.
Peter Reed, University of Mississippi.
Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden, University of North Texas.
Julia Doe, Columbia University.
Co-sponsorship