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Considine, Basil:
Priests, Pirates, Opera Singers, and Slaves:
Séga and European Art Music in Mauritius, “The Little Paris of the Indian Ocean”.
Ph.D. Boston University, 2013. xvii & 396 p.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments iv
Abstract vi
List of Tables xii
List of Figures xiii
List of Abbreviations xvi
Spelling and Translation xvii

I. Introduction 1
Overview 5
About Mauritius 8
Key Elements of Modern Séga 14
General Notes on Sources 23
Scholarly Relevance 25
Notes on Field Work 26
Preamble to the Historical Chapters 31

II. Music in Precolonial, Dutch, and Intercolonial
Mauritius (1622-1721) 35
Sources on Dutch Mauritius 36
Precolonial History 40
Tracking a Cultural History 41
Dutch Colonization, Communal Music, and the Shadow
Colony (1638-1706) 44
The Dutch East Indies Company 50
Inside the Personnel Records 75

III. Music in French Mauritius: The Creation of
“The Little Paris of the Indian Ocean” (1721-1810) 93
Sources on French Mauritius 95
Background to the French Colonial Period in Mauritius 98
Rumblings of Séga and Slave-Maroon Relations 103
Constructing the “Little Paris” 109
Visitor Accounts 111
The Bourdonnais Innovations 119
Métissage 125
For Crown and Country 129
Opera, Revolution, and the Sans-Culottes 142
Empire and Fall: The Twilight of French Mauritius 148

IV. Music in Mauritius under The British Empire:
The Status Quo in the Twilight Hours of Slavery and
the Era of Immigration (1810-1910) 154
Introduction to the British Colonial Period in Mauritius 155
Conquest and Liberation: Music under Early British Imperialism 158
Theater and Society 167
Religious Disputes and Missionary Music 177
Malagasy Culture in Mauritius during the Early British Period 178
Abolition and Immigration 187
Changing Patterns of Musical Transmission 196
Public Music 199
The Twilight Years of Immigration and the Eve of the Great War 214
Epilogue to the First Century of British Rule 223

V. Peaks and Declines: Sociocultural Fractures,
Séga, and the Road to Republic (1911-1965) 225
Sources on Early-Twentieth Century Mauritius 228
Immigrant Communities in the Early Twentieth Century 232
Indo-Mauritian Communities 233
Sino-Mauritian Communities 237
The Great War (1914-1918) 241
Interbellum 254
The Second World War (1939-1945) 261
An Internment in “Paradise” 265
Wartime Séga 279
Commentary on the Second World War 281
Séga Musical Culture in the Postwar Period 282
Other Musics 296
Postlude to the 1961-1965 Period 301

VI. European Art Music and Séga in
Modern Mauritius (1965-2012) 303
A Glimpse of Modern Mauritius 303
Sources on Modern Mauritius 309
On Fieldwork 312
Séga, Racial Politics, and the Run-Up to Independence 315
The Sounds of Independence 322
Independence and the Rise of Séga Engagé 327
Hotel Séga and Séga Engagé 338
Hybridity and Returns 346
Rastafarianism, Slum Shanties, and Seggae 353
The Revival of European Art Music 359
Conclusion: Séga in a Multi-Ethnic Society 363

Bibliography 366
Archival Sources 366
Published Sources 369
Newspapers and Popular Magazines Cited 394
Online Sources 394
Recordings Cited 395
Unpublished Papers 395
Theses and Dissertations 396
Interviews Cited 396

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