Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean / edited by Peter Manuel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manuel, Peter, 1952-

Series:

Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music.

Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Caribbean Area.

Dance.

Dance music--Caribbean Area.

Dance music.

Music--Caribbean Area.

Music.

Country-dances (Music)--Caribbean Area.

Country-dances (Music).

Quadrille (Dance)--Caribbean Area.

Quadrille (Dance).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2009.

Summary:

The contradance and quadrille, in their diverse forms, were the most popular, widespread, and important genres of creole Caribbean music and dance in the nineteenth century. Throughout the region they constituted sites for interaction of musicians and musical elements of different racial, social, and ethnic origins, and they became crucibles for the evolution of genres like the Cuban danzón and son, the Dominican merengue, and the Haitian mereng. Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean is the first book to explore this phenomenon in detail.

Contents:

Introduction : contradance and quadrille culture in the Caribbean / Peter Manuel

Cuba: from contradanza to danzon / Peter Manuel

Puerto Rico: the rise and fall of the danza as national music / Edgardo Diaz Diaz and Peter Manuel

The Dominican Republic: danza and the contradanced merengue / Peter Manuel

Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia: creole quadrilles / Dominique Cyrille

Haiti: tracing the steps of the meringue and contredanse / Michael Largey

The English-speaking Caribbean: re-embodying the colonial ballroom / Kenneth Bilby and Daniel Neely.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612284700

9781282284708

1282284703

9781592137367

1592137369

OCLC:

472419227