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Name: Cities of the dead
Author: Roach, Joseph R.

📘 Cities of the dead by Roach, Joseph R.

Cities of the Dead examines the performance traditions that knit together societies across the Atlantic rim over three centuries. Roach shows how theatre, music, and ritual—from New Orleans’s Mardi Gras Indians to Haitian Voudon rites and British funerary customs—reconstruct history, fill gaps left by death, and create communal identities. Through fifty-five illustrations and comparative analysis, the book argues that performance is a vital medium for remembering, forgetting, and redefining the past across Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

First publish date: 1996

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Roach, Joseph R.

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