"I suggest, based on a brief longitudinal observation of some twenty-five years, that both African- and European-derived musical styles and genres, in their forms truest to Old-World heritage, are both on the wane; and a fusion, a more populist and urban 'creole' music, is on the rise." (author)
"Traces the history of Haitian classical or "learned" music from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century by examining the state's role as a patron to the arts, the development of the educational system, the call for a national Haitian music in the early twentieth century, and individual composer's biographies." (author)
