Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

Contents

• Preface 00
• Map 00
• The Caribbean at a Glance 00
• 1. Introduction: The Caribbean Crucible 1
• The Indian Heritage 0
• The African Heritage 0
• Patterns of Musical Retention 0
• The European Heritage 0
• Creolization 0
• 2. Cuba 00
• A Day in Havana, 1986 00
• The Cuban Crucible 00
• African-derived Musics 00
• Rumba 00
• A Music Festival in Santiago de Cuba 00
• European-derived Musics 00
• The Son and Modern Cuban Dance Music 00
• "Socialism with Pachanga" 00
• The 'Special Period" and its Special Music 00
• Coda: Revisiting Havana-and Miami, 2004 00
• 3. Puerto Rico 00
• Cuba and Puerto Rico: "The Two Wings of the Same Bird" 00
• European-derived Musics 00
• The Fiesta de Santiago Apostol at Loiza Aldea 00
• Plena and Bomba in the Dance Hall 00
• Music and the Puerto Rican Diaspora 00
• Puerto Rico Rocks and Raps 00
• 4. Salsa and Beyond 00
• The Son Sires a Son 00
• Ruben Blades: The Cutting Edge 00
• Style and Structure 00
• The Salsa Life 00
• Salsa Lite? 00
• Latin Rap and Reggaeton 00
• Nueva Cancion 000
• 5. The Dominican Republic 000
• The Emergence of Merengue 000
• The Merengue Tipico of Cibao 000
• The Merengue as National Symbol 000
• The Modern Merengue 000
• The Merengue Explosion 000
• Merengue Style and Dance 000
• Bachata: Songs of Bitterness, Songs of Love 000
• Juan Luis Guerra 000
• The Return of the Repressed 00
• 6. Haiti and the French Caribbean 000
• Music in the Streets of Port-au-Prince 000
• Haitian Cultural Crossroads 000
• Creolization in Haiti: Language 000
• Creolization in Haiti: Religion 000
• Carnival and Rara 000
• Misik Twoubadou 000
• Haitian Dance Music 000
• Politics and the Haitian Diaspora 000
• Contemporary Haitian Popular Music 00
• Misik Rasin, Rap, and Ragga 000
• Music in the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia 000
• 7. Jamaica 000
• Kumina Culture, 1976 000
• Roots Music in the Mid-Twentieth Century 00
• Music inna Downtown Style: Recording the Unrecorded 000
• Roots and Culture: Downtown Triumphant 000
• Rasta and Revolution 000
• The End of an Era, and the Dawn of a New One: From Reggae to Ragga 000
• Tellin' it like it is, from 'Consciousness' to 'Slackness' 00
• Female Degradation or Liberation? 00
• Love Music -- or Hate Music? 00
• Sound Systems and Sound Clashes 00
• Dancehall inna Foreign 00
• 8. Trinidad, Calypso, and Carnival 000
• The Development of Calypso and Carnival 000
• Calypso in Colonialism 000
• Modern Calypso and Carnival 000
• Woman Rising 000
• The Carnival Context 000
• Steel Band 000
• Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad 000
• 9. East Indian Music; and Big Sounds from the "Small Islands"
• East Indians in the West Indies 000
• Small Island Traditions 000
• 10. Five Themes in the Study of Caribbean Music 000
• Unity and Diversity in a Continent of Islands 000
• Race and Ethnicity 000
• Music, Sex, and Sexism 000
• Caribbean Music International 000
• Music and Politics 000
• Glossary 000
• Notes 000
• Index 000