Caribbean Currents : Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
ISBN: 9781592134632 | 1592134637
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Temple Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/28/2006
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Caribbean Currentspresents an engaging panorama of the rich and diverse musics of the Caribbean region. This expanded and updated edition of the award-winning book covers recent developments in the region's music, such as the emergence of reggaetón and timba and includes a new and extensive study of Jamaican dancehall. Among the other additions are twenty-seven illustrations. The authors cover the historical development and current forms of the musics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, the les... MORE
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. ix |
| The Caribbean at a Glance | p. xiii |
| Introduction: The Caribbean Crucible | p. 1 |
| The Indian Heritage | p. 3 |
| The African Heritage | p. 6 |
| Patterns of Musical Retention | p. 10 |
| The European Heritage | p. 12 |
| Creolization | p. 14 |
| Bibliography | p. 18 |
| Cuba | p. 19 |
| A Day in ... MORE | p. 19 |
| The Cuban Crucible | p. 21 |
| African-Derived Musics | p. 22 |
| Rumba | p. 27 |
| A Music Festival in Santiago de Cuba | p. 30 |
| European-Derived Musics | p. 33 |
| The Son and Modern Cuban Dance Music | p. 43 |
| "Socialism with Pachanga" | p. 54 |
| The "Special Period" and Its Special Music | p. 59 |
| Coda: Revisiting Havana-and Miami, 2004 | p. 61 |
| Bibliography | p. 63 |
| Records and Films | p. 63 |
| Puerto Rico | p. 65 |
| Cuba and Puerto Rico: "The Two Wings of the Same Bird" | p. 66 |
| European-Derived Musics | p. 67 |
| The Fiesta de Santiago Apostol at Loiza Aldea | p. 73 |
| Plena and Bomba in the Dance Hall | p. 77 |
| Music and the Puerto Rican Diaspora | p. 80 |
| Puerto Rico Rocks and Raps | p. 85 |
| Bibliography | p. 86 |
| Records and Films | p. 86 |
| Salsa and Beyond | p. 88 |
| The Son Sires a Son | p. 88 |
| Ruben Blades: The Cutting Edge | p. 95 |
| Style and Structure | p. 99 |
| The Salsa Life | p. 100 |
| Salsa Lite? | p. 106 |
| Latin Rap and Reggaeton | p. 110 |
| Nueva Cancion | p. 113 |
| Bibliography | p. 115 |
| Records and Films | p. 115 |
| The Dominican Republic | p. 116 |
| The Merengue Tipico | p. 118 |
| The Merengue as National Symbol | p. 121 |
| The Modern Merengue | p. 123 |
| The Merengue Explosion | p. 126 |
| Merengue Style and Dance | p. 130 |
| Bachata: Songs of Bitterness, Songs of Love | p. 132 |
| Juan Luis Guerra | p. 135 |
| The Return of the Repressed | p. 138 |
| Bibliography | p. 140 |
| Records and Films | p. 140 |
| Haiti and the French Caribbean | p. 141 |
| Music in the Streets of Port-au-Prince | p. 141 |
| Haitian Cultural Crossroads | p. 142 |
| Creolization in Haiti: Language | p. 145 |
| Creolization in Haiti: Religion | p. 146 |
| Carnival and Rara | p. 151 |
| Misik Twoubadou | p. 156 |
| Haitian Dance Music | p. 157 |
| Politics and the Haitian Diaspora | p. 162 |
| Contemporary Haitian Popular Music | p. 165 |
| Misik Rasin, Rap, and Ragga | p. 167 |
| Music in the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia | p. 170 |
| Bibliography | p. 175 |
| Records | p. 176 |
| Jamaica | p. 177 |
| Kumina Culture, 1976 | p. 177 |
| Roots Music in the Mid-Twentieth Century | p. 183 |
| Music inna Downtown Style: Recording the Unrecorded | p. 187 |
| Roots and Culture: Downtown Triumphant | p. 191 |
| Rasta and Revolution | p. 194 |
| The End of an Era and the Dawn of a New One: From Reggae to Ragga | p. 199 |
| Tellin' It Like It Is, from "Consciousness" to "Slackness" | p. 202 |
| Female Degradation or Liberation? | p. 206 |
| Love Music-or Hate Music? | p. 208 |
| Sound Systems and Sound Clashes | p. 210 |
| Dancehall inna Foreign | p. 213 |
| Bibliography | p. 215 |
| Records | p. 215 |
| Trinidad, Calypso, and Carnival | p. 216 |
| The Development of Calypso and Carnival | p. 218 |
| Calypso in Colonialism | p. 220 |
| Modern Calypso and Carnival | p. 227 |
| Woman Rising | p. 231 |
| The Carnival Context | p. 235 |
| Steel Band | p. 240 |
| Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad | p. 245 |
| Bibliography | p. 247 |
| Records and Films | p. 248 |
| East Indian Music and Big Sounds from the "Small Islands" | p. 249 |
| East Indians in the West Indies | p. 249 |
| Small Island Traditions | p. 261 |
| Indo-Caribbean Bibliography | p. 269 |
| Indo-Caribbean Records and Film | p. 270 |
| Small Island Bibliography | p. 270 |
| Small Island Recordings | p. 270 |
| Five Themes in the Study of Caribbean Music | p. 271 |
| Unity and Diversity in a Continent of Islands | p. 271 |
| Race and Ethnicity | p. 273 |
| Music, Sex, and Sexism | p. 278 |
| Caribbean Music International | p. 283 |
| Music and Politics | p. 287 |
| Notes | p. 291 |
| Glossary | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 311 |
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Peter Manuel is Professor of Music at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center Kenneth Bilby is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution Michael Largey is Associate Professor of Music at Michigan State University, East Lansing
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