Nanette De Jong | Tracking Creolisation: The Tambú from Curaçao Event detailsSpeaker: Nanette de Jong (University of Newcastle)Date: Thursday 23 March 2023Time: 5.15 - 6.45pm. Venue: Alison House, Atrium (G10)AbstractTambú is a music and dance ritual from the Dutch island of Curaçao. Comprising multiple, often contradictory origins, Tambú intertwines sacred and secular, private and public, and a myriad of traditions from Africa and the ‘New World.’ This presentation investigates Tambú through its variegated history. Emphasising the ritual’s creole origins and development, it asks questions around how rituals strengthen community bonds to perceived pasts, and, moreover, what happens to communities when their rituals for remembering or reclaiming history assume new and different subtexts. BiographyNanette De Jongh is a professor of socially engaged ethnomusicology at the International Centre for Music Studies, School of Arts and Cultures, University of Newcastle. A prolific scholar of the musics of the Caribbean, Southern Africa and the African diaspora, she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music (2022).LinksThe Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music (ebook, external link; access available via University of Edinburgh Library) Mar 23 2023 5:15pm - 6:45pm Nanette De Jong | Tracking Creolisation: The Tambú from Curaçao Nanette De Jong explores the history and meaning of tambú, a music and dance ritual from Curaçao. Alison House 12 Nicolson Square Edinburgh EH8 9DF Find out more about the venue This article was published on Tuesday 21 January 2025
Nanette De Jong | Tracking Creolisation: The Tambú from Curaçao Event detailsSpeaker: Nanette de Jong (University of Newcastle)Date: Thursday 23 March 2023Time: 5.15 - 6.45pm. Venue: Alison House, Atrium (G10)AbstractTambú is a music and dance ritual from the Dutch island of Curaçao. Comprising multiple, often contradictory origins, Tambú intertwines sacred and secular, private and public, and a myriad of traditions from Africa and the ‘New World.’ This presentation investigates Tambú through its variegated history. Emphasising the ritual’s creole origins and development, it asks questions around how rituals strengthen community bonds to perceived pasts, and, moreover, what happens to communities when their rituals for remembering or reclaiming history assume new and different subtexts. BiographyNanette De Jongh is a professor of socially engaged ethnomusicology at the International Centre for Music Studies, School of Arts and Cultures, University of Newcastle. A prolific scholar of the musics of the Caribbean, Southern Africa and the African diaspora, she is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music (2022).LinksThe Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music (ebook, external link; access available via University of Edinburgh Library) Mar 23 2023 5:15pm - 6:45pm Nanette De Jong | Tracking Creolisation: The Tambú from Curaçao Nanette De Jong explores the history and meaning of tambú, a music and dance ritual from Curaçao. Alison House 12 Nicolson Square Edinburgh EH8 9DF Find out more about the venue This article was published on Tuesday 21 January 2025
Mar 23 2023 5:15pm - 6:45pm Nanette De Jong | Tracking Creolisation: The Tambú from Curaçao Nanette De Jong explores the history and meaning of tambú, a music and dance ritual from Curaçao.
