Music, writing, and cultural unity in the Caribbean / edited by Timothy J. Reiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reiss, Timothy J., 1942-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Caribbean Area--History and criticism.

Music.

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Caribbean Area--Civilization.

Caribbean Area.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

viii, 424 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Trenton, N.J. : Africa World, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction: Music, writing, and ocean circuits / Timothy J. Reiss

Cinquillo consciousness: the formation of a Pan-Caribbean musical aesthetic / Sara E. Johnson

Reading caribbean music: reflections on the music of Leo Brouwer / Paul B. Miller

Africanity and continuum in sacred and popular Trinidadian musical forms / Amon Saba Saakana

The ties that bind? Rhythm, writing, and the question of heredity in the Caribbean / Rudyard Alcocer

"Soy mestiza y no lo soy": Gonzalo Roig's musical re(vision) of Cecilia Valdres / Lucy D. Harney

The spaces and faces of music and dance in early modern Havana / Luz Mena

Drum and minuet: music, masquerade, and the mulatto of style / Gordon Rohlehr

Calypso aesthetic in George Lamming's In the castle of my skin / Margaret Diana Gill

Forging a distinctive sensibility: Babylon by bus / Kwame Dawes

"More fire": chanting down Babylon from Bob Marley to Capleton / Carolyn Cooper

Street romances: salsa's voyeurism / Juan Otero Garabis

In Cortijo's wake: Cronica and popular music / Juan Flores

Cuba, the night, and the music: Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Havana Son et lumiere / Christopher Winks

Dancehall lyricism / Natasha Barnes

Creolite's queer mangrove / Jarrod Hayes

How to read a novel from Curacao? The perception of history in Diana Lebac's The longest month / Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger

Parent tongue: Caribbean women poets and female musicians sounding landscapes / Opal Palmer Adisa

Caribbean dirges: rising rhythms, precarious prospects / Silvio Torres-Saillant

Piggyback exchange: Kassav' and black musicians in Paris / Brenda F. Berrian.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1592211771

OCLC:

57709805