 | Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora Subjects: Rara Festival -- Songs and music -- History and criticism; Voodoo music -- Haiti -- History and criticism; Folk music -- Haiti -- History and criticism; Folk songs Creole -- Haiti -- History and criticism; Haiti -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions. McAlister Elizabeth : Elizabeth McAlister is Professor of Religion and African American studies at Wesleyan University. |
