African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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661 p., Focuses on the diffusion of Cuban popular musical styles throughout the Americas as well as the creation of new hybrids in places such as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Latin New York. Students, scholars and librarians will find Baila! to be an essential resource on Afro-Latin music and dance, language, literature, aesthetics, and more.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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326 p., Part of a series listing materials on the history of North America and the Caribbean from 1492 to 1815. Organized thematically, the book covers, among many other topics, exploration and colonization; maritime history; environment; Native Americans; race, gender, and ethnicity; migration; labor and class; business; families; religion; material culture; science; education; politics; and military affairs.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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614 p, Cuba has been central to popular music developments throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States and Europe. Unfortunately, no one has ever attempted to survey the extensive literature on the island's music, in particular the vernacular contributions of its Afro-Cuban population. This unprecedented bibliographic guide attempts to do just that. Ranging from the 19th century to early 2009 it offers almost 5000 entries on all of the islandâ¿¿s main genre families, e.g. Cancion Cubana, Danzon, Son, Rumba, and Sacred Musics (Santeria, Palo, Abakua, and Arara), as well as such recent developments as timba, rap and regueton.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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201 p, Contents: Cultural history and the arts -- Festivals and Carnival -- Music of the French-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora. General works; Canada; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; France; French Guiana (Guyane); Guadeloupe; Haiti; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia; United States -- Biographical and critical studies.
Details of several books published during the past year that examine human ownership as experienced in Africa, Britain, South America, the United States, and the West Indies
As this year's list of published works shows, CAribbean literature is expanding in new and exiciting ways, New York from the first generations of canonical writers continues to be fresh and surprising, reflecting diverse literary, cultural and linguistic influences. A growing body of literature from the Caribbean diaspora adds new dimensions to notions of a caribbean identity and literary representations of caribbean time, place and space. The double commonwealth' status of caribbean-canadian literay culture provides a fertile soil in which to reconfigure familiar themes of un/beloging, exile, hybridity and the call of home. As well as reflecting these more generic 'postcolonial' issues, Caribbean literature defines itself within a distincly Caribbean tradition, re-voicing, interrogating.
All literary categories and definitions are imperfect and are often the sunject of the debate and contestation: "West Indies and The Caribbean" are no exception. 'West Indies', the term used in this journal's previous bibliographies to describe the literature of the Caribbean region, accurately defines the literature of the Commonwealth Caribbean, which is Anglophone and which has historical and contemporary political, social and cultural link to Britain. At the same time, literary scholarsship from the region increasingly identifies itself as Caribbean, that is connected geographically, historically and culturally to the Francophone, Hispanic and Ducth-speaking Caribbean and to the Americas; The Caribbean complied and introduced by Suzanne Scafe London .....Debate and contestation: West Indies' and 'The Caribbean' are no exceptions.
Caribbean lIterary production is being redefined in the wake of recent cahanges in the larger publishing houses that have traditionally published Caribbean literature. Macmillan Caribbean Writers, Launched in 2003 at the Calabash Literary festival in Jamaica, has opened its series with an impressive list of plubblications including new editions of Caribbean fiction from established writers, the Caribbean Classics series, which includes unplublished fiction and autobiograph7y from the nineteeth and early twentieth century, and new writting from as yet unplublished writers. Other very small Caribbean publishers such as Arawak and Twin Guinep continue to plublish reference works and some literary criticism, and the plublications lists of the University of the West Indies Press continues to grow; Introduction to Caribbean literary production.
