PrefaceMapThe Caribbean at a Glance1. Introduction: The Caribbean CrucibleThe Indian Heritage •The African Heritage •Patterns of Musical Retention •The European Heritage •Creolization2. CubaA Day in Havana, 1986 •The Cuban Crucible •African-derived Musics •Rumba •A Music Festival in Santiago de Cuba •European-derived Musics •TheSonand Modern Cuban Dance Music •"Socialism withPachanga"3. Puerto RicoCuba and Puerto Rico: "The Two Wings of the Same Bird" •European-derived Musics •TheFiesta de Santiago Apóstolat Loíza Aldea •PlenaandBombain the Dance Hall •Music and the Puerto Rican Diaspora4. Salsa and BeyondTheSonSires a Son •Ruben Blades: The Cutting Edge •Style and Structure •The Salsa Life •Salsa Lite? •Latin Rap •Nueva Canción5. The Dominican RepublicThe Emergence of Merengue •TheMerengue Típicoof Cibao •The Merengue as National Symbol •The Modern Merengue •The Merengue Invasion •Merengue Style and Dance •Bachata: Songs of Bitterness •Juan Luis Guerra6. Haiti and the French CaribbeanMusic in the Streets of Port-au-Prince •Haitian Cultural Crossroads •Creolization in Haiti: Language •Creolization in Haiti: Religion •Carnival andRara•Misik Twoubadou•Haitian Dance Music •Politics and the Haitian Diaspora •Vodou-Jazz Today •Music in the Lesser Antilles7. Jamaica1976: Traveling through Reggae's "Golden Era" •Music ina Downtown Style: Recording the Unrecorded •Kuminaina Trench Town Style: One Thread Out of Many •Roots and Culture: Downtown Triumphant •Techno-Roots: From Reggae toRagga•Coda: RastaKuminainaRaggamuffinStyle8.
Trinidad, Calypso, and CarnivalThe Development of Calypso and Carnival •Calypso in Colonialism •Modern Calypso and Carnival •Calypso and Gender •The Carnival Context •Steel Band •Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad9. The Other CaribbeanEast Indians in the West Indies •Introducing the Popular Music of Suriname •Kaseko: Enter the Strings and Horns •Aleke: The Drum Rules Again10. Five Themes in the Study of Caribbean MusicUnity and Diversity in a Continent of Islands •Race and Ethnicity •Music, Sex, and Sexism •Caribbean Music International •Music and PoliticsGlossaryNotesIndex.