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Shunned for centuries, Vodou grows powerful as Haitians seek solace from unrelenting gang violence

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...
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Vodou nation : Haitian art music and cultural nationalism / Michael Largey

Performing the nation : musical constructions of Haitian cultural identity -- The politics of musical ethnography : Jean Price-Mars and the ethnological movement -- Recombinant mythology and the ...
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Music and Dance Return With the Third Annual Festival Minokan at Wyckoff House Museum

Brooklyn’s oldest farmhouse is hosting a celebration of Haitian culture, including drumming, dance and food, with their third annual Festival Minokan this month. Haitian singer and Vodou Priestess ...
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Dance Your Way Through the Second Annual Haitian Festival at Wyckoff House Museum

Brooklyn’s oldest farmhouse is hosting an exploration of music, dance, food and history with their second annual Festival Minokan this weekend. Haitian singer and Vodou Priestess Sirene Dantor is ...
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Haitian vodou : spirit, myth, and reality / edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...