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7 - Reframing Diasporic Belonging

Curaçao Tambú Parties in the Netherlands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2022

By
Nanette de Jong
Edited by
Nanette de Jong
Nanette de Jong
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
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Summary

This chapter introduces the Tambú, from Curaçao, and follows its resettlement in the Netherlands, where it is celebrated as a party attended a variety of immigrants, each searching for a sense of community; a space for sharing common experiences of marginalisation and discrimination. Through the theory of ‘interpretive diasporas’, the chapter insists on the necessity for a plurality of approaches to thinking about diaspora and belonging.

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Tambú PartyCuraçaoNetherlandsDiasporaInterpretive Diasporas
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The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music , pp. 95 - 109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

De Jong, Nanette. 2012. ‘Curaçao and the Folding Diaspora: Contesting the Party Tambú in the Netherlands’. Black Music Research Journal. 32, no. 2, 67–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Jong, Nanette. 2012. Tambú: Curaçao’s African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Google Scholar
Kempadoo, Kamala. 2018. The Migrant Tightrope: Experiences from the Caribbean. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
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Discography

All of these recordings are self-recorded and self-distributed, and as such have no record labels.

Grupo Trinchera. 2000. Danki: Felis Aña. Curaçao.Google Scholar
Pincho y su Grupo. 1991. Baha for di mi Lomba. Curaçao, No. 002.Google Scholar
Pincho y su Grupo. 1990. Mi Gayo. Curaçao, No. 002.Google Scholar
Susana, Nicolass ‘Shon Cola’/Grupo Trinchera. 1990. Tranval. Curaçao, No. 002.Google Scholar
Zojojo. 1998. Zojojo Live. Curaçao.Google Scholar

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