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    1. "In Chetumal We Are Not Rastas But We Like Reggae": Afro-Caribbean Music In The Border Between Mexico And Belize

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Cunin,Elisabeth (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Language:
    Spanish
    Publication Date:
    Jan 2012
    Published:
    Iztapalapa, Vicentina, Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Alteridades
    Journal Title Details:
    22(43) : 79-94
    Notes:
    Attempts to understand what the presence of Black music means in the absence of Black people. Is this an expression of a global circulation of Afro-Caribbean cultural trends as symbols of belonging and difference among urban youngsters? Does it take us back to the history of Quintana Roo as a Caribbean region and the Black Atlantic? Is it a form of revision of Mexican national ethnic mixture and inclusion of other population groups? Adapted from the source document.

    2. Madam Zajj and US Steel: Blackness, Bioperformance, and Duke Ellington's Calypso Theater

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Vogel,Shane (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Jan 2012
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Social Text
    Journal Title Details:
    30(4) : 1-24
    Notes:
    Develops a theoretical framework of biopolitical performance with which to approach the 1957 televised broadcast of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's A Drum Is a Woman. Presented on the drama anthology program The United States Steel Hour, this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Argues that through their experimentation Ellington and Strayhorn created a hybrid performance in the mode of "calypso theater": a formal and thematic engagement with an Afro-Caribbean performance history.

    3. Rio Tries Counterinsurgency

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Muggah,Robert (Author) and Mulli,Albert Souza (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Feb 2012
    Published:
    Philadelphia, PA: Current History, Inc
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Current History
    Journal Title Details:
    111(742) : 62-66
    Notes:
    Brazil's tourist-jammed cities are some of the most violent on the planet. A considerable number of the country's 43,000 annual murders occur on the streets of Sao Paulo, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro. And Brazilian cities are not alone in what might be called a bad neighborhood. The fact is that most major Latin American and Caribbean cities are today plagued by an epidemic of violence. With more than 20 murders per 100,000 people, the regional homicide rate is roughly three times the global average. Many of the larger urban centers -- from Caracas and Ciudad Juarez to Kingston and Port-of-Spain -- register the highest rates of lethal violence in the world.