The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music
Part of Cambridge Companions to Music
- Editor: Nanette de Jong, University of Newcastle
- Date Published: August 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108421928
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The diverse musics of the Caribbean form a vital part of the identity of individual island nations and their diasporic communities. At the same time, they witness to collective continuities and the interrelatedness that underlies the region's multi-layered complexity. This Companion introduces familiar and less familiar music practices from different nations, from reggae, calypso and salsa to tambú, méringue and soca. Its multidisciplinary, thematic approach reveals how the music was shaped by strategies of resistance and accommodation during the colonial past and how it has developed in the postcolonial present. The book encourages a comparative and syncretic approach to studying the Caribbean, one that acknowledges its patchwork of fragmented, dynamic, plural and fluid differences. It is an innovative resource for scholars and students of Caribbean musical culture, particularly those seeking a decolonising perspective on the subject.
Read more- Opens up new ways approaching Caribbean music as part of more inclusive university curricula, responding to the call for decolonization of scholarship
- Introduces the reader to the distinctive music of different Caribbean islands, while tracing themes such as race, identity and cultural memory that are shared across this complex region
- Contributions from linguists, anthropologists and literary scholars as well as ethnomusicologists and music educators provide rich inter-disciplinary perspectives
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- Date Published: August 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108421928
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 250 x 174 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword Lester Monts
1. Introduction to the Caribbean and its History – An Overview Nanette de Jong
2. Race and Transculturation – The Cuban Son Robin Moore
3. Salsa Soundings – Puerto Rico and the Americas Frances R Aparicio
4. Blackness and Identity – Dominican Merengue Angelina Tallaj
5. From the island to global stages – Dominican bachata on the move Deborah Pacini-Hernandez
6. Investigating the Caribbean's African past – Kokomakaku stickdance from Curaçao Nanette de Jong
7. Reframing diasporic belonging – Curaçao Tambú parties in the Netherlands Nanette de Jong
8. Competition, Conflict and Cooperation – Haitian Rara Michael Largey
9. Uncovering hidden histories of meaning – Guadeloupe Gwoka Brenda F. Berrain
10. The Foundations of rap music and postcolonial emancipation – Guadeloupe Hip-Hop Florabelle Spielmann
11. Konpa, Zouk and the politics of world music – Haiti, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique Hélène Zamor and Apollinaire Anakesa Kululuka
12. Globalisation in Reggae and the Dub Diaspora – Jamaica David V Moskowitz
13. Musical orality and literacy in the transmission of knowledge and praxis – Trinidad and Tobago Felicity Laurence and Nanette de Jong
14. Narratives of Return – Carriacou and the Big Drum Ritual Nanette de Jong and Linda F. Williams
15. Decolonising Caribbean imaginings – Conclusion Nanette de Jong and Julio Nazario.
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