Peter Manuel
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music From Rumba To Reggae - Revised And Expanded
Book
(Temple University Press 1592134637),
Released 2006;
Editor's Pick:
Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect of Caribbean expressive culture. From the well-known genressalsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and bachatato more localized forms like chutney and kaseko, this wide-ranging book surveys Caribbean music's prodigious diversity and colorful history.
Enhanced with numerous illustrations and musical examples, Caribbean Currents is an up-to-date overview of the region's music, covering Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Suriname, and smaller islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe. Engaging descriptions of musical forms and innovations, festivals and dance halls, as well as musicians and fans, are situated in the context of the modern genres' relationship to issues of race, regional diversity, gender, and socio-political conflicts.
This revised and expanded version features:
(, 2009-06-30)
Description:
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
The Caribbean at a Glance
1. Introduction: The Caribbean Crucible
The Indian Heritage The African Heritage Patterns of Musical Retention The European Heritage Creolization Bibliography
2. Cuba
A Day in Havana, 1986 The Cuban Crucible African-Derived Musics Rumba A Music Festival in Santiago de Cuba European-Derived Musics The Son and Modern Cuban Dance Music "Socialism with Pachanga" The "Special Period" and Its Special Music Coda: Revisiting Havanaand Miami, 2004 Bibliography Records and Films
3. Puerto Rico
Cuba and Puerto Rico: "The Two Wings of the Same Bird'' European-Derived Musics The Fiesta de Santiago Apσstol at Loνza Aldea Plena and Bomba in the Dance Hall Music and the Puerto Rican Diaspora Puerto Rico Rocks and Raps Bibliography Records and Films
4. Salsa and Beyond
The Son Sires a Son Ruben Blades: The Cutting Edge Style and Structure The Salsa Life Salsa Lite? Latin Rap and Reggaetσn Nueva Canciσn Bibliography Records and Films
5. The Dominican Republic
The Merengue Tνpico The Merengue as National Symbol The Modern Merengue The Merengue Explosion Merengue Style and Dance Bachata: Songs of Bitterness, Songs of Love Juan Luis Guerra The Return of the Repressed Bibliography Records and Films
6. Haiti and the French Caribbean
Music in the Streets of Port-au-Prince Haitian Cultural Crossroads Creolization in Haiti: Language Creolization in Haiti: Religion Carnival and Rara Misik Twoubadou Haitian Dance Music Politics and the Haitian Diaspora Contemporary Haitian Popular Music Misik Rasin, Rap, and Ragga Music in the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia Bibliography Records
7. Jamaica
Kumina Culture, 1976 Roots Music in the Mid-Twentieth Century Music inna Downtown Style: Recording the Unrecorded Roots and Culture: Downtown Triumphant Rasta and Revolution The End of an Era and the Dawn of a New One: From Reggae to Ragga Tellin' It Like It Is, from "Consciousness" to "Slackness" Female Degradation or Liberation? Love Musicor Hate Music? Sound Systems and Sound Clashes Dancehall inna Foreign Bibliography Records
8. Trinidad, Calypso, and Carnival
The Development of Calypso and Carnival Calypso in Colonialism Modern Calypso and Carnival Woman Rising The Carnival Context Steel Band Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad Bibliography Records and Films
9. East Indian Music and Big Sounds from the "Small Islands"
East Indians in the West Indies Small Island Traditions Indo-Caribbean Bibliography Indo-Caribbean Records and Film Small Island Bibliography Small Island Recordings
10. Five Themes in the Study of Caribbean Music
Unity and Diversity in a Continent of Islands Race and Ethnicity Music, Sex, and Sexism Caribbean Music International Music and Politics
Notes
Glossary
Index
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