PrefaceMapThe Caribbean at a Glancel. Introduction: The Caribbean Crucible The Indian Heritage The Mrkan Heritage Patterns of Musical Retention The European Heritage Creolization 2. Cuba A Day in Havana, 1986 The Cuban Crucible Mrkan-derived Musks Rumba A Music Festival in Santiago de CubaEuropean~derived Musks The Son and Modern Cuban Dance Musk "Socialism with Pachanga" 3. Puerto Rico Cuba and Puerto Rico: 'The Two Wings of the Same Bird" European-derived Musks The Fiesta de Santiago Apostol at Loiza Aldea Plena and Bomba in the Dance Hall Music and the Puerto Rican Diaspora 4. Salsa and Beyond The Son Sires a Son Ruben Blades: The Cutting Edge Style and Structure The Salsa Life Salsa Lite? Latin Rap Nueva Cancion 5. The Dominican RepublicThe Emergence of MerengueThe Merengue Tipico of CibaoThe Merengue as National SymbolThe Modem Merengue The Merengue InvasionMerengue Style and Dance Bachata: Songs of BitternessJuan Luis Guerra 6. Haiti and the French Caribbean Music in the Streets ofPort-au-Prince Haitian Cultural Crossroads Creolization in Haiti: Language Creolization in Haiti: Religion Carnival and R.ara Misik Twoubadou Haitian Dance Music Politics and the Haitian Diaspora Vodou-Jazz Today Music in the Lesser Antilles7.
Jamaica 1976: Traveling through Reggae's "Golden Era" Music in a Downtown Style: Recording the Unrecorded Kumina in a Trench Town Style: One Thread Out of Many Roots and Culture: Downtown Triumphant Techno-Roots: From Reggae to Ragga Coda: Rasta Kumina ina Raggamuffin Style 8. Trinidad, Calypso, and CarnivalThe Development of Calypso and CarnivalCalypso in Colonialism Modem Calypso and Carnival Calypso and Gender The Carnival Context Steel Band Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad 9. The Other Caribbean East Indians in the West Indies Introducing the Popular Music of Suriname Kmeko: Enter the Strings and Horns Aleke: The Drum Rules Again 10. Five Themes in the Study of Caribbean Music Unity and Diversity in a Continent of Islands Race and Ethnicity Music, Sex, and Sexism Caribbean Music International Music and Politics Glossary Notes Index.