基本説明
Enhanced with numerous illustrations and musical examples, Caribbean Currents is an up-to-date overview of the region's music covering Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Suriname, and smaller islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Full Description
Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect of Caribbean expressive culture. From the well-known genres—salsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and bachata—to more localized forms like chutney and kaseko, this wide-ranging book surveys Caribbean music's prodigious diversity and colorful history. Enhanced with numerous illustrations and musical examples, Caribbean Currents is an up-to-date overview of the region's music, covering Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Suriname, and smaller islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe. Engaging descriptions of musical forms and innovations, festivals and dance halls, as well as musicians and fans, are situated inThis revised and expanded version features: * Twenty-seven new illustrations * Recent developments in the region's music, such as the emergence of reggaet\u00f3n and timba * A new and extensive study of Jamaican dancehall
Contents
Preface 00
Map 00
The Caribbean at a Glance 00
1. Introduction: The Caribbean Crucible 1
The Indian Heritage 0
The African Heritage 0
Patterns of Musical Retention 0
The European Heritage 0
Creolization 0
2. Cuba 00
A Day in Havana, 1986 00
The Cuban Crucible 00
African-derived Musics 00
Rumba 00
A Music Festival in Santiago de Cuba 00
European-derived Musics 00
The Son and Modern Cuban Dance Music 00
"Socialism with Pachanga" 00
The 'Special Period" and its Special Music 00
Coda: Revisiting Havana-and Miami, 2004 00
3. Puerto Rico 00
Cuba and Puerto Rico: "The Two Wings of the Same Bird" 00
European-derived Musics 00
The Fiesta de Santiago Apóstol at Loíza Aldea 00
Plena and Bomba in the Dance Hall 00
Music and the Puerto Rican Diaspora 00
Puerto Rico Rocks and Raps 00
4. Salsa and Beyond 00
The Son Sires a Son 00
Ruben Blades: The Cutting Edge 00
Style and Structure 00
The Salsa Life 00
Salsa Lite? 00
Latin Rap and Reggaetón 00
Nueva Canción 000
5. The Dominican Republic 000
The Emergence of Merengue 000
The Merengue Típico of Cibao 000
The Merengue as National Symbol 000
The Modern Merengue 000
The Merengue Explosion 000
Merengue Style and Dance 000
Bachata: Songs of Bitterness, Songs of Love 000
Juan Luis Guerra 000
The Return of the Repressed 00
6. Haiti and the French Caribbean 000
Music in the Streets of Port-au-Prince 000
Haitian Cultural Crossroads 000
Creolization in Haiti: Language 000
Creolization in Haiti: Religion 000
Carnival and Rara 000
Misik Twoubadou 000
Haitian Dance Music 000
Politics and the Haitian Diaspora 000
Contemporary Haitian Popular Music 00
Misik Rasin, Rap, and Ragga 000
Music in the Lesser Antilles: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia 000
7. Jamaica 000
Kumina Culture, 1976 000
Roots Music in the Mid-Twentieth Century 00
Music inna Downtown Style: Recording the Unrecorded 000
Roots and Culture: Downtown Triumphant 000
Rasta and Revolution 000
The End of an Era, and the Dawn of a New One: From Reggae to Ragga 000
Tellin' it like it is, from 'Consciousness' to 'Slackness' 00
Female Degradation or Liberation? 00
Love Music -- or Hate Music? 00
Sound Systems and Sound Clashes 00
Dancehall inna Foreign 00
8. Trinidad, Calypso, and Carnival 000
The Development of Calypso and Carnival 000
Calypso in Colonialism 000
Modern Calypso and Carnival 000
Woman Rising 000
The Carnival Context 000
Steel Band 000
Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad 000
9. East Indian Music; and Big Sounds from the "Small Islands"
East Indians in the West Indies 000
Small Island Traditions 000
10. Five Themes in the Study of Caribbean Music 000
Unity and Diversity in a Continent of Islands 000
Race and Ethnicity 000
Music, Sex, and Sexism 000
Caribbean Music International 000
Music and Politics 000
Glossary 000
Notes 000
Index 000
