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371 p, Contents: The problem of the problem of form -- Possession as metaphor : Lamming's Season of adventure -- The space between negations -- Assassins of the voice : Martin Carter's Poems of affinity, 1978-1980 -- Three for V -- The shape of that hurt : an introduction to Voiceprint -- Megalleons of light : Edward Brathwaite's Sun poem -- Brathwaite with a dash of brown :crit, the writer and the written life -- The rehumanization of history : regeneration of spirit, apocalypse and revolution in Brathwaite's The arrivants and X/Self -- Trophy and catastrophe : Guiyana Prize feature address -- Apocalypso and the Soca fires of 1990.
Romeu,Rafael (Author), Perez-Lopez,Jorge F. (Author), Mesa-Lago,Carmelo (Author), and Perales,Jose Raul (Editor)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
July 2011
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Washington, DC: Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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91 p., This publication examines the contemporary state of Cuba's economy at a time of great transformation. Using econometric and other macroeconomic analysis tools, its authors have taken advantage of the recent availability of official economic statistics to offer new insights into longstanding questions about Cuba's economic behavior. Tables, Figures, References.
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230 p., For almost five decades, the United States has maintained a comprehensive economic embargo on Cuba. U.S.-based travel to the island is severely restricted, and most financial and commercial transactions with Cuba are illegal for U.S. citizens. In the 1990s the United States tightened the embargo further, seeking to promote change in Cuba by depriving the Castro government of hard currency revenues. And yet the stalemate remains. This book argues that the embargo has not been particularly effective in achieving its primary goal. The United States has not only been unable to stifle the flow of foreign investment into Cuba but has actually contributed to the recovery of the Cuban economy, particularly from the deep recession it entered following the demise of the Soviet Union.
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450 p, Contents: The Black experience in Chile / William F. Sater -- Health conditions in the slave trade of colonial New Granada / David L. Chandler -- Manumission, Libres, and Black resistance: the Colombian Chocó, 1680-1810 / William F. Sharp -- African slave trade and economic development in Amazonia, 1700-1800 / Colin M. MacLachan -- Nineteenth-century Brazilian slavery / Robert Conrad -- The implementation of slave legislation in eighteenth-century New Granada / Norman A. Meiklejohn -- Slavery, race, and social structure in Cuba during the nineteenth century / Franklin W. Knight -- The abolition of slavery in Venezuela: a nonevent / John V. Lombardi -- Abolition and the issue of the Black freedman's future in Brazil / Robert Brent Toplin -- Beyond poverty: the Negro and the mulatto in Brazil / Florestan Fernandes -- The question of color in Puerto Rico / Thomas G. Mathews -- Elitist attitudes toward race in twentieth-century Venezuela / Winthrop R. Wright -- The gradual integration of the Black in Cuba: under the colony, the republic, and the revolution / Marianne Masferrer and Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Afro-Brazilians: myths and realities / Arthur F. Corwin.
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178 p., By acknowledging that competing national identities, perceptions, and ideas play a major role in foreign policies, Perceptions of Cuba makes a significant contribution to our understanding of international relations. Contents: The exceptionalist and the Cuban other -- The independent international citizen and the other Cuba -- Exploring Cuba policy in tandem.
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:
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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]).
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Godfrey BALDACCHINO, Yoko ORYU, French Caribbean: Adieu foulard, adieu madras: A sonic study in (post)colonialism (RILM ref]2011-12101/ref]); Sergio BONANZINGA, Sicily: Navigating responses to global cultural patterns (RILM ref]2011-12111/ref]); Kathryn A. BURNETT, Ray BURNETT, Scotland's Hebrides: Song and culture, transmission, and transformation (RILM ref]2011-12104/ref]); Jennifer CATTERMOLE, Fiji Islands: A sustainable future for sigidrigi? (RILM ref]2011-12107/ref]); Ijahnya CHRISTIAN, English Caribbean: When people cannot talk, they sing (RILM ref]2011-12099/ref]); Judith R. COHEN, Ibiza and Formentera: Worlds of singers and songs (RILM ref]2011-12113/ref]); Cristoforo GARIGLIANO, Aeolian Islands: Three singers, their folk songs, and the interpretation of tradition (RILM ref]2011-12112/ref]); Waldo GARRIDO, Philip HAYWARD, Chiloé: An offshore song culture (RILM ref]2011-12109/ref]); Maria HNARAKI, Crete—Souls of soil: Island identity through song (RILM ref]2011-12110/ref]); Henry M. JOHNSON, Jersey: Jèrriais, song, and language revitalization (RILM ref]2011-12105/ref]); Soraya MARCANO, Spanish Caribbean: Liquid identities (RILM ref]2011-12100/ref]); Owe RONSTRÖM, Gotland: Where folk culture and island overlap (RILM ref]2011-12114/ref]); Heather SPARLING, Cape Breton Island: Living in the past? Gaelic language, song, and competition (RILM ref]2011-12102/ref]); Deatra WALSH, Newfoundland: From Ron Hynes to Hey Rosetta! (RILM ref]2011-12103/ref]); Oli WILSON, Papua New Guinea: Popular music and the continuity of tradition—An ethnographic study of the songs by the band Paramana Strangers (RILM ref]2011-12106/ref]).
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111 p, A look at Caribbean Americans, where they come from, the difficulties they have assimilating in the United States and how their heritage remains an important part of their new lives.
Belafonte,Harry, (Author) and Shnayerson,Michael, (Collab.)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2011
Published:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf
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A personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America's greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists. Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and the resilient spirit of the Caribbean lifestyle instilled in him a tenacity to face the hurdles of life head-on and channel his anger into positive, life-affirming actions. He returned to New York City after serving in the Navy in World War II, and found his calling in the theater, before transitioning into a career as a singer and Hollywood leading man. During the 1960s civil rights movement, Belafonte became close friends with Martin Luther King, Jr., and used his celebrity as a platform for his activism in civil rights and countless other political and social causes. This book tells the inspiring story of an original and powerful entertainer who has always engaged fiercely with the issues of his day.
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Unedited] During the second half of the 20th c., the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island’s music culture. This book provides a survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists, and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. It concentrates on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. It considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. It includes analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil’ Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression.
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Surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Dispelling common misconceptions, this book examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music until then played only by and for black audiences. Here, Birnbaum argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and R&B—a melange of genres that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into R&B.
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329 p, Contents: Introduction -- transamerican renaissance -- Scattered traditions : the transamerican genealogies of Jicoténcal -- A francophone view of comparative American literature : Revue des colonies and the translations of abolition -- Cuban stories -- Hawthorne's Mexican genealogies -- Transamerican theatre : Pierre Faubert and L'Oncle Tom.
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402 p, Exploration of the musical heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean, arranged by region, focusing on the major countries/regions (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, etc. in Latin America and Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Haiti, etc. in the Caribbean). In each chapter the author gives a complete history of the region’s music, ranging from classical and classical-influenced styles to folk and traditional music to today’s popular music.
Campbell,Patricia Shehan, (Ed.And Intro.) and Wiggins,Trevor, (Ed.And Intro.)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2013
Published:
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Location:
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Carlos R. ABRIL, Perspectives on the school band from hardcore American band kids (RILM ref]2013-00778/ref]); Mayumi ADACHI, The nature of music nurturing in Japanese preschools (RILM ref]2013-00779/ref]); Sarah J. BARTOLOME, Education and evangelism in a Sierra Leonean village (RILM ref]2013-00763/ref]); Marisol BERRÍOS-MIRANDA, Musical childhoods across three generations, from Puerto Rico to the U.S.A. (RILM ref]2013-00768/ref]); Tyler BICKFORD, Tinkering and tethering in the material culture of children's MP3 players (RILM ref]2013-00788/ref]); Sally BODKIN-ALLEN, Interweaving threads of music in the Whariki of early childhood cultures in Aotearoa/New Zealand (RILM ref]2013-00775/ref]); Gregory D. BOOTH, Economics, class, and musical apprenticeship in South Asia's brass band communities (RILM ref]2013-00789/ref]); Lily CHEN-HAFTECK, Balancing change and tradition in the musical lives of children in Hong Kong (RILM ref]2013-00776/ref]); Judah M. COHEN, Reform Jewish songleading and the flexible practices of Jewish-American youth (RILM ref]2013-00751/ref]); Eugene DAIRIANATHAN, Chee-Hoo LUM, Reflexive and reflective perspectives of musical childhoods in Singapore (RILM ref]2013-00770/ref]); Sonja Lynn DOWNING, Girls experiencing gamelan education and cultural politics in Bali (RILM ref]2013-00749/ref]); Andrea EMBERLY, Venda children's musical culture in Limpopo, South Africa (RILM ref]2013-00752/ref]); Anna HOEFNAGELS, Kristin Harris WALSH, Constructions and negotiations of identity in children's music in Canada (RILM ref]2013-00791/ref]); Beatriz ILARI, Musical cultures of girls in the Brazilian Amazon (RILM ref]2013-00756/ref]); Alan M. KENT, Celticity, community, and continuity in the children's musical cultures of Cornwall (RILM ref]2013-00760/ref]); Alexandra KERTZ-WELZEL, Children's and adolescents' musical needs and music education in Germany (RILM ref]2013-00774/ref]); Young-youn KIM, Tradition and change in the musical culture of South Korean children (RILM ref]2013-00777/ref]); Magali Oliveira KLEBER, Jusamara Vieira SOUZA, The musical socialization of children and adolescents in Brazil in their everyday lives (RILM ref]2013-00757/ref]); Lisa Huisman KOOPS, Enjoyment and socialization in Gambian children's music making (RILM ref]2013-00766/ref]); Elizabeth MACKINLAY, The musical worlds of Aboriginal children at Burrulula and Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia (RILM ref]2013-00769/ref]); Noriko MANABE, Songs of Japanese schoolchildren during World War II (RILM ref]2013-00753/ref]); Kedmon MAPANA, Enculturational discontinuities in the musical experience of the Wagogo children of central Tanzania (RILM ref]2013-00783/ref]); Kathryn MARSH, Music in the lives of refugee and newly arrived immigrant children in Sydney, Australia (RILM ref]2013-00782/ref]); Sara Stone MILLER, Terry E. MILLER, The role of context and experience among the children of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio (RILM ref]2013-00781/ref]); Amanda MINKS, Miskitu children's singing games on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua as intercultural play and performance (RILM ref]2013-00761/ref]); Marvelene C. MOORE, The musical culture of African American children in Tennessee (RILM ref]2013-00771/ref]); Sylvia NANNYONGA-TAMUSUZA, Girlhood songs, musical tales, and musical games as strategies for socialization into womanhood among the Baganda of Uganda (RILM ref]2013-00754/ref]); Robert PITZER, Youth music at the Yakama Nation Tribal School (RILM ref]2013-00750/ref]); Christopher ROBERTS, A historical look at three recordings of children's musicking in New York City (RILM ref]2013-00792/ref]); Natalie SARRAZIN, Children's urban and rural musical worlds in North India (RILM ref]2013-00764/ref]); Hope Munro SMITH, Children's musical engagement with Trinidad's Carnival music (RILM ref]2013-00767/ref]); Janet L. STURMAN, Integration in Mexican children's musical worlds (RILM ref]2013-00759/ref]); Polo VALLEJO, Georgian (Caucasus) children's polyphonic conception of music (RILM ref]2013-00758/ref]); Peter WHITEMAN, The complex ecologies of early childhood musical cultures (RILM ref]2013-00780/ref]); Trevor WIGGINS, Whose songs in their heads? (RILM ref]2013-00793/ref]).
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The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Kelly M. ASKEW, As Plato duly warned: Music, politics, and social change in Coastal East Africa (RILM ref]2012-18675/ref]); Reinhold BRINKMANN, The distorted sublime: Music and national socialist ideology—A sketch (RILM ref]2012-18663/ref]); George CICCARIELLO-MAHER, Brechtian hip-hop: Didactics and self-production in post-gangsta political mixtapes (RILM ref]2012-18677/ref]); Robin DENSELOW, Born under a bad sign (RILM ref]2012-18669/ref]); Jean DURING, Power, authority and music in the cultures of Inner Asia (RILM ref]2012-18674/ref]); Danielle FOSLER-LUSSIER, Beyond the folk song, or, What was Hungarian socialist realist music? (RILM ref]2012-18666/ref]); Simon FRITH, Rock and the politics of memory (RILM ref]2012-18670/ref]); Marina FROLOVA-WALKER, On Ruslan and Russianness (RILM ref]2012-18659/ref]); Jane F. FULCHER, The composer as intellectual: Ideological inscriptions in French interwar neoclassicism (RILM ref]2012-18662/ref]); Lydia GOEHR, Political music and the politics of music (RILM ref]2012-18678/ref]); Daniel KREISS, Appropriating the master's tools: Sun Ra, the Black Panthers, and black consciousness (1952–1973) (RILM ref]2012-18672/ref]); Nicholas MATHEW, Beethoven's political music, the Handelian sublime, and the aesthetics of prostration (RILM ref]2012-18657/ref]); Nick NESBITT, African music, ideology and utopia (RILM ref]2012-18676/ref]); Charles B. PAUL, Music and ideology: Rameau, Rousseau, and 1789 (RILM ref]2012-18652/ref]); Jolanta T. PEKACZ, Deconstructing a 'national composer': Chopin and Polish exiles in Paris, 1831-49 (RILM ref]2012-18658/ref]); Pamela M. POTTER, What is 'Nazi music'? (RILM ref]2012-18664/ref]); David M. POWERS, The French musical theater: Maintaining control in Caribbean colonies in the eighteenth century (RILM ref]2012-18653/ref]); Mao Yu RUN, Music under Mao, its background and aftermath (RILM ref]2012-18673/ref]); Richard TARUSKIN, Public lies and unspeakable truth: Interpreting Shostakovich's fifth symphony (RILM ref]2012-18665/ref]); Katharine THOMSON, Mozart and freemasonry (RILM ref]2012-18655/ref]); Jess TYRE, Music in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune (RILM ref]2012-18660/ref]); Penny Marie VON ESCHEN, Ike gets Dizzy (RILM ref]2012-18668/ref]); Glenn E. WATKINS, The old lie (RILM ref]2012-18661/ref]).
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302 p, "History of UFCO's Atlantic coast operations in Costa Rica from perspective of largely West Indian labor force. Examines formation of enclave economy, including role of West Indian labor, subsistence production, and health problems as occasion of worker-company misunderstandings. Also studies workers' cultural and political lives apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, company, and how West Indians and UFCO figured in Costa Rican nationalist thought and politics"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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250 p, Francis Sancher--a handsome outsider, loved by some and reviled by others--is found dead, face down in the mud on a path outside Riviere au Sel, a small village in Guadeloupe. None of the villagers are particularly surprised, since Sancher, a secretive and melancholy man, had often predicted an unnatural death for himself. As the villagers come to pay their respects they each--either in a speech to the mourners, or in an internal monologue--reveal another piece of the mystery behind Sancher's life and death. Like pieces of an elaborate puzzle, their memories interlock to create a rich and intriguing portrait of a man and a community.
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]).
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266 p, This study spans several linguistic areas of the Caribbean and parts of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., Mexico, and South America; it examines historical, national, popular, parading, sacred, and combat dances to reveal both meanings and consequences of performance. Beyond unfolding important physical and cultural significances of each genre, the analyses deepen to understand core motivations for African diaspora performance; the results are transcendence, resilience, and citizenship among dancing and music-making participants. The study repeatedly acknowledges Katherine Dunham, who began teaching the citizenship of Caribbean dance/music practices and reviews the literature since her original trilogy on Caribbean dance practices. Analyses also place local Caribbean dances as viable commodities within crucial Caribbean tourism and both cultural and economic globalization.
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As contemporary tambú music and dance evolved on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, it intertwined sacred and secular, private and public cultural practices, and many traditions from Africa and the New World. As she explores the formal contours of tambú, the author discovers its variegated history and uncovers its multiple and even contradictory origins. She recounts the personal stories and experiences of Afro-Curaçaoans as they perform tambú–some who complain of its violence and low-class attraction and others who champion tambú as a powerful tool of collective memory as well as a way to imagine the future.
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Explores the vexed relationship between popular dance and value. In a critique of the Western art canon, it traces the shifting value systems that underpin popular dance scholarship and considers how different dancing communities articulate multiple and often paradoxical expressions of judgment, significance, and worth through their embodied practice. Employing a cultural theory approach, it focuses on the choreographic content of neo-burlesque striptease in London and New York, the dance styles of British punk, metal, and ska fans, and the vernacular dances of a British-Caribbean dancehall to interrogate how value is produced, negotiated, and reimagined. Yet this is not to assume that they are autonomous values untouched by the social frameworks in which they exist. Rather, the corporeal enunciations of value constructed by those engaged in popular dance forms are informed by a complex matrix of aesthetic, economic, political, and social values that are already in circulation
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This annotated discography covers the first 50 years of audio recordings by black artists in chronological order, music made in the 'acoustic era' of recording technology. The book has cross-referenced bibliographical information on recording sessions, including audio sources for extant material, and appendices on field recordings; Caribbean, Mexican and South American recordings; piano rolls performed by black artists; and a filmography detailing the visual record of black performing artists from the period. Indexes contain all featured artists, titles recorded and labels.
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260 p, Contents: Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition -- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming -- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon -- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall -- Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb -- Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng
Glasgow,Roy A. (Author) and Langley,Winston (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Lewiston, ME: E. Mellen Press
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347 p, Contents: A new look at development and social change in the English-speaking Caribbean / George Pottinger -- Education and social development in Jamaica : human capital approach or correspondence theory / Lacelles Anderson & Trevor Turner -- Health in the Eastern Caribbean / Cora Christian -- Mass media and socialist government in the Caribbean / John Lent -- Whither Caribbean socialism? : reflections on Jamaica, Grenada and Guyana / Carl Stone -- The Commonwealth Caribbean : crisis of adjustment / Ransford Palmer -- The internationalization of capital, development and labor migration from the Caribbean / Hilbourne Watson -- Tourism in the Commonwealth Caribbean : a case study / Winston Griffith -- Changing bargaining capacities in the Third World : Caribbean participation in the IBA / Michael Allen -- The dynamics of Cuban foreign policy towards Black Africa / Carlos Moore -- Manley and Seaga in Jamaica : Third World typologies? / Winston Langley -- From Medici to Sarney : an assessment of Brazilian foreign policy in the lower Caribbean, 1960-1985 / Roy Glasgow -- Summary and conclusion / Roy Glasgow & Winston Langley
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182 p, "The West Indian Americans captures the experiences of this diverse group of immigrants who have arrived in the United States since 1965. These English-speaking Caribbean immigrants have an increasing presence in this country, particularly in New York City. The differences between the various peoples of African, East Indian, or mixed ancestry, usually unacknowledged, are described here. Henke clearly relates who the groups are - from the Jamaicans to the Garifuna - why they left their homelands, how they have adapted and impacted this country, and the new challenges they face. Many notable West Indian Americans are profiled."--BOOK JACKET
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351 p, Contents: I. Toco -- II. Class differences and standards of living -- III. Work and the problem of security -- IV. The structure of Toco society -- V. The functioning family -- VI. The rites of death -- VII. The role of religion -- VIII. The shouters -- IX. Divination and magic -- X. The avenues of self-expression -- XI. Retentions and reinterpretations -- Appendix I. Notes on Shango worship -- Appendix II. Official documents bearing on Trinidad Negro customs -- Appendix III. References -- Index
Madrid,Alejandro L., (Author) and Moore,Robin Dale, (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2013
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New York: Oxford University Press
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Initially branching out of the European contradance tradition, the danzón first emerged as a distinct form of music and dance among black performers in 19th-c. Cuba. By the early 20th-c., it had exploded in popularity throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean basin. A fundamentally hybrid music and dance complex, it reflects the fusion of European and African elements and had a strong influence on the development of later Latin dance traditions as well as early jazz in New Orleans. This book studies the emergence, hemisphere-wide influence, and historical and contemporary significance of this music and dance phenomenon. The authors take an ethnomusicological, historical, and critical approach to the processes of appropriation of the danzón in new contexts, its changing meanings over time, and its relationship to other musical forms. Delving into its long history of controversial popularization, stylistic development, glorification, decay, and rebirth in a continuous transnational dialogue between Cuba and Mexico as well as New Orleans, the authors explore the production, consumption, and transformation of this Afro-diasporic performance complex in relation to global and local ideological discourses. By focusing on interactions across this entire region as well as specific local scenes, the authors underscore the extent of cultural movement and exchange within the Americas during the late 19th and early 20th-c., and are thereby able to analyze the danzón, the dance scenes it has generated, and the various discourses of identification surrounding it as elements in broader regional processes.
McDonald,Roderick A. (Author) and Sheridan,Richard B. (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Barbados: Press University of the West Indies
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388 p, Contents: Richard B. Sheridan : the making of a Caribbean economic historian / Howard Johnson -- Capture of the blue dove, 1664 : policy, profits and protection in early English Jamaica / Nuala Zahedieh -- Taylor manuscript and seventeenth-century Jamaica / David Buisseret -- English Quaker merchants and war at sea, 1689-1783 / Jacob M. Price -- Edward Trelawny's "Grand Elixir" : metropolitan weakness and constitutional reform in the mid-eighteenth-century British empire / Jack P. Greene -- Botanical and horticultural enterprise in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Douglas Hall -- West India interest and the crisis of American independence / Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy -- United States and the British West Indian trade, 1783-1807 / Selwyn H. H. Carrington -- Property rights in pleasure : the marketing of slave women's sexuality in the West Indies / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Story of two Jamaican slaves : Sarah Affir and Robert McAlpine of Mesopotamia Estate / Richard S. Dunn -- Patterns of exchange within a plantation economy : Jamaica at the time of emancipation / B. W. Higman -- Planter profits and slave rewards : amelioration reconsidered / Mary Turner -- Abolition and emancipation : Williams, Drescher and the continuing debate / Walter Minchinton -- Ambivalencies of independence : the transition out of slavery in the Bahamas, c. 1800-1850 / Michael Craton -- Land and labour problem at the time of the legal emancipation of the British West Indian slaves / Stanley L. Engerman Urban crime and social control in St. Vincent during the apprenticeship / Roderick A. McDonald -- "Repression is not a policy" : Sydney Olivier on the West Indies and Africa / Richard A. Lobdell
Moore,Robin Dale, (Ed.And Intro.) and Clark,Walter Aaron, (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
01/01; 2012
Published:
New York: W.W. Norton
Location:
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Notes:
The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: Walter Aaron CLARK, Latin American impact on contemporary classical music (RILM ref]2012-19875/ref]); John KOEGEL, Mexico (RILM ref]2012-19870/ref]); Cristina MAGALDI, Brazil (RILM ref]2012-19873/ref]); Robin Dale MOORE, Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean (RILM ref]2012-19872/ref]); Daniel PARTY, Twenty-first century Latin American and Latino popular music (RILM ref]2012-19876/ref]); Jonathan RITTER, Peru and the Andes (RILM ref]2012-19865/ref]); Deborah SCHWARTZ-KATES, Argentina and the Rioplatense Region (RILM ref]2012-19874/ref]); Thomas M. SCRUGGS, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela (RILM ref]2012-19871/ref]); Susan THOMAS, Music, conquest, and colonialism (RILM ref]2012-19869/ref]).
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126 p, Contents: The book is organized as a series of essays on related topics all applied to Caribbean women's fiction: white women writers; madness; postcolonial theory, female subjectivity, Bakhtin's Carnival image; ideology (Elaine Savory)
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399 p, Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.
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310 p, "First published in 1970, this pioneering account of the emergence of the West Indian Novel in English has been at the centre of the development of West Indian Literature as an academic discipline." (Ian Randle Publisher)
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Examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. It analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early 21st c., in particular rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, the author finds a Bahamian music that has remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, he illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.
