“…This unique collection of essays connects nations from across the Atlantic---Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, among others---highlighting contemporary popular, folkloric, and religious music and dance. By tracking the continuous reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal traces, the contributors to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World collectively argue that music and dance are the living evidence of a constant (re)composition and (re)mixing of local sounds and gestures…”

“…L'incessante réécriture de l'histoire du personnage légendaire (tour à tour Jean Boutedieu, Ahasvérus, Isaac Laquedem ou Boudedeo) a fourni un angle d'attaque pour étudier l'évolution du folklore chrétien des maudits, et donc, du moins en partie, le folklore de la Passion. …”

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“…Qualsevol investigació sobre els contes folklòrics ajuda a explicar les arrels misterioses del relat de ficció i a recuperar el tresor fascinant d'un passat de narrativa oral, profundament arrelat a les nostres cultures, però injustament relegat…”
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“…Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies."…”

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