Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
- Author: Bilby, Kenneth
- Author: Largey, Michael
- Author: Manuel, Peter
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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