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42. From Africa to Jamaica: the making of an Atlantic slave society, 1775-1807
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Diptee,Audra A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Gainesville: University Press of Florida
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 208 p., Illustrates the way enslaved Africans lived and helped to shape Jamaican society in the three decades before British abolition of the slave trade. Audra Diptee's in-depth investigations reveal unexpected insights into the demographics of those captured in Africa and legally transported on British slave ships.
43. From sugar to revolution : women's visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Chancy,Myriam Josèphe Aimée (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 358 p, Chancy aims to show that Haiti’s exclusion is grounded in its historical role as a site of ontological defiance. Her premise is that writers Edwidge Danticat, Julia Alvarez, Zoé Valdés, Loida Maritza Pérez, Marilyn Bobes, Achy Obejas, Nancy Morejón, and visual artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons attempt to defy fears of “otherness” by assuming the role of “archaeologists of amnesia.” They seek to elucidate women’s variegated lives within the confining walls of their national identifications—identifications wholly defined as male. They reach beyond the confining limits of national borders to discuss gender, race, sexuality, and class in ways that render possible the linking of all three nations.
44. Global privatization laws and regulations handbook. Caribbean countries privatization and investment opportunities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Washington, D.C: International Business Publications,USA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 302 p
45. Global reggae
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Cooper,Carolyn, (Ed.And Intro.)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Published:
- Kingston: University of the West Indies
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Conference Source: Global reggae conference (2008) : Mona.
- Notes:
- Unedited] The conference took place 18–24 February, 2008. The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Kam-Au AMEN, Entertainment and cultural enterprise management (RILM ref]2012-19744/ref]); Peter ASHBOURNE, From mento to ska and reggae to dancehall (RILM ref]2012-19730/ref]); Erna BRODBER, Reggae as black space (RILM ref]2012-19729/ref]); Louis CHUDE-SOKEI, Roots, diaspora and possible Africas (RILM ref]2012-19739/ref]); Brent CLOUGH, Oceanic reggae (RILM ref]2012-19741/ref]); Carolyn COOPER, Reggae studies at the University of the West Indies (RILM ref]2012-19743/ref]); Samuel Furé DAVIS, Reggae in Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean (RILM ref]2012-19733/ref]); Cheikh Ahmadou DIENG, Reggae griots in Francophone Africa (RILM ref]2012-19738/ref]); Teddy ISIMAT-MIRIN, Reggae in the French Caribbean (RILM ref]2012-19734/ref]); Ellen KOEHLINGS, Pete LILLY, The evolution of reggae in Europe with a focus on Germany (RILM ref]2012-19732/ref]); Amon Saba SAAKANA, The impact of Jamaican music in Britain (RILM ref]2012-19731/ref]); Roger STEFFENS, Reggae music in the bloodstream (RILM ref]2012-19736/ref]); Marvin Dale STERLING, Gender, class and race in Japanese dancehall culture (RILM ref]2012-19740/ref]); Michael E. VEAL, Dub: Electronic music and sound experimentation (RILM ref]2012-19742/ref]); Leonardo VIDIGAL, Reggae music documentaries in Brazil (RILM ref]2012-19735/ref]); Klive WALKER, The journey of reggae in Canada (RILM ref]2012-19737/ref]).
46. Historical dictionary of jazz
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Davis,John S., (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Published:
- Lanham: Scarecrow Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Unedited] Jazz is a music formed from a combination of influences. In its infancy, jazz was a melting pot of military brass bands, work songs, and field hollers of the United States slaves during the 19th c., European harmonies and forms, and the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean. Later, the blues and the influence of Spanish and French Creoles with European classical training nudged jazz further along in its development. Jazz has always been a world-music in the sense that music from around the globe has been embraced and incorporated. This dictionary covers the history of jazz through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,500 cross-referenced entries on significant jazz performers, band leaders, bands, venues, record labels, recordings, and the different styles of jazz.
47. Humor in the Caribbean literary canon
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vásquez,Sam (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 212 p., Examines writers, such as Louise Bennett, Aimé Césaire, Junot Díaz, Zora Neale Hurston, Derek Walcott, and Anthony Winkler, who engage humor to challenge representations of people of African descent within canonical Western texts and forms.
48. I rather dead : a Spivakian reading of Indo-Caribbean women's narratives
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Goluch,Dorota (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Howrah: Roman Books
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 95 p, Within the already colonized and marginalized Indo-Caribbean communities, Indo-Caribbean women can be considered a discriminated group, and their (self-)representation may be analyzed as subaltern speech. This book discusses fiction and other stories of Indo-Caribbean women, concentrating on their attempts to rewrite 'regulative psychobiographies', as the postcolonial feminist critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak calls traditional narratives dominating women's lives. Attempting to bear witness to gender, race, and class differences, this analysis interrogates how the attempted self-expression is mediated, retrieved and read by others. It also demonstrates that, depending on the position and power of the parties involved, intervention into oppressive scripts can assume very different forms.
49. Jazz/not jazz: The music and its boundaries
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Ake,David A., (Ed.And Intro.), Garrett,Charles, (Ed.And Intro.), and Goldmark,Daniel, (Ed.And Intro.)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2012
- Published:
- Berkeley: University of California Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: David AKE, Crossing the street: Rethinking jazz education (RILM ref]2012-05841/ref]); Tamar BARZEL, The praxis of composition-improvisation and the poetics of creative kinship (RILM ref]2012-05838/ref]); Jessica BISSETT PEREA, Voices from the jazz wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest vocal ensembles within jazz education (RILM ref]2012-05840/ref]); Charles GARRETT, The humor of jazz (RILM ref]2012-05833/ref]); Daniel GOLDMARK, 'Slightly left of center': Atlantic Records and the problems of genre (RILM ref]2012-05837/ref]); John HOWLAND, Jazz with strings: Between jazz and the great American songbook (RILM ref]2012-05836/ref]); Loren Y. KAJIKAWA, The sound of struggle: Black revolutionary nationalism and Asian American jazz (RILM ref]2012-05839/ref]); Eric C. PORTER, Incorporation and distinction in jazz history and jazz historiography (RILM ref]2012-05831/ref]); Ken PROUTY, Creating boundaries in the virtual jazz community (RILM ref]2012-05834/ref]); Sherrie TUCKER, Deconstructing the jazz tradition: The subjectless subject of new jazz studies (RILM ref]2012-05842/ref]); Elijah WALD, Louis Armstrong loves Guy Lombardo (RILM ref]2012-05832/ref]); Christopher J. WASHBURNE, Latin jazz, Afro-Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz, Cubop, Caribbean jazz, jazz Latin, or just...jazz: The politics of locating an intercultural music (RILM ref]2012-05835/ref]).
50. Jean Rhys
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carr,Helen (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Tavistock, Devon, U.K; London: Northcote; British Council
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 153 p, Jean Rhys and her critics -- Feminist approaches to Jean Rhys -- The Caribbean question -- Writing in the margins -- Autobiography and ambivalence -- 'The day they burned the books' -- Fort Comme La Mort : the French Connection -- The politics of Good morning, midnight -- The huge machine of law, order and respectability -- Resisting the machine -- The enemy within -- Goodnight, day -- Intemperate and unchaste -- The other side -- The struggle for the sign.