In the late 1950s to 1970s, an Afro-Peruvian revival brought the forgotten music and dances of Peru’s African musical heritage to Lima’s theatrical stages. The revival conjured newly imagined links to the past in order to celebrate—and to some extent recreate—Black culture in Peru. In this groundbreaking study of the Afro-Peruvian revival and its aftermath, 2000 IDRF Fellow Heidi Carolyn Feldman reveals how Afro-Peruvian artists remapped blackness from the perspective of the “Black Pacific,” a marginalized group of African diasporic communities along Latin America’s Pacific coast.

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