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" Caribbean currents : "
Peter Manuel with Michael Largey.
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BL
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845873
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Manuel, Peter,1952-
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Caribbean currents : : Caribbean music from rumba to reggae /\ Peter Manuel with Michael Largey.
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Third edition.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :: Temple University Press,, 2016.
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Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
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xx, 336 pages :: illustrations, maps, music ;; 24 cm
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1439913994
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: 1439914001
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: 9781439913994
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: 9781439914007
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143991401X
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9781439914014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction : the Caribbean crucible -- The Amerindian heritage -- The African heritage -- Patterns of musical retention -- The European heritage -- Creolization -- 2. Cuba -- An evening in Havana, 2014 -- The Cuban crucible -- African-derived musics -- Rumba -- Music in Santiago de Cuba -- European-derived musics -- The Son and modern Cuban dance music -- "Socialism with pachanga"? -- The "special period" and its special music -- Miami comes alive -- 3. Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico and Cuba : "the two wings of the same bird" -- European-derived musics -- The Fiesta Patronal de Santiago Apóstol at Loíza Aldea -- Plena and bomba n the dancehall -- Music and the Puerto Rican diaspora -- Music and island identity under "colonialism lite" -- 4. Salsa, Reggaeton, and beyond -- The Son sires a son -- Ruben Blades :the cutting edge -- Style and structure -- Salsa lite? -- The new Millennium : holding pattern or death spiral? -- Salsa dance, from On-1 to On-2 -- Reggaeton -- Nueva Cancion -- 5. The Dominican Republic -- The African heritage in a Creole culture -- Merengue Típico and the Creole mainstream -- The merengue as national symbol -- The modern merengue -- The merengue explosion -- Merengue style and dance -- Bachata : from the rural tavern to the global nightclub -- Juan Luis Guerra -- 6. Haiti and the French Caribbean -- Music in the streets of Port-au-Prince -- Haitian cultural crossroads -- Creolization in Haiti : language -- Creolization in Haiti : religion -- Carnival and Rara -- Mizik Twoubadou -- Haitian dance music -- Politics and the Haitian diaspora -- Contemporary Haitian popular music -- Mizik Rasin, Rap, and Ragga -- Music in the Lesser Antilles : Martinique, Guadeloupe, Dominica, and St. Lucia -- 7. Jamaica -- African traditions in a difficult climate -- Other vernacular traditions -- Ska : from imitation to creation -- Roots and culture : Downtown triumphant -- Rasta and revolution -- Bob Marley, the Tuff Gong -- The end of an era and the dawn of a new one : from Reggae to Ragga -- The Dancehall Era -- Tellin' it like it is, from "consciousness" to "slackness" -- Gal tunes and slackness : women's liberation or degradation? -- Voices of the ghetto, from "reality" to Shotta songs -- Clashes : Fi Fun and Fi Real -- Love music, or hate music? -- Dancing, sound-system dances, and sound clashes -- Dancehall inna Foreign -- 8. Trinidad, Calypso, and Carnival -- The development of Calypso and Carnival -- Calypso in Colonialism -- Modern Calypso -- Woman rising -- Soca -- The Carnival context -- Steelband music -- Calypso and Carnival outside Trinidad --9. East Indian music and big sounds from the "small islands" -- East Indians in the West Indies -- Small island traditions -- 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.
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This volume showcases the diverse musics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, the lesser Antilles, and their transnational communities in the United States and elsewhere.
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Music-- Caribbean Area-- History and criticism.
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Music-- West Indies-- History and criticism.
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Music.
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Caribbean Area.
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West Indies.
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| Dewey Classification
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780.9729
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ML3565.M36 2016
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Largey, Michael D.,1959-
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