The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music

Foreword Lester Monts; 1. Introduction to the Caribbean and its History – An Overview Nanette de Jong; 2. Race and Transculturation – The Cuban Son Robin Moore; 3. Salsa Soundings – Puerto Rico and the Americas Frances R Aparicio; 4. Blackness and Identity – Dominican Merengue Angelina Tallaj; 5. From the island to global stages – Dominican bachata on the move Deborah Pacini-Hernandez; 6. Investigating the Caribbean's African past – Kokomakaku stickdance from Curaçao Nanette de Jong; 7. Reframing diasporic belonging – Curaçao Tambú parties in the Netherlands Nanette de Jong; 8. Competition, Conflict and Cooperation – Haitian Rara Michael Largey; 9. Uncovering hidden histories of meaning – Guadeloupe Gwoka Brenda F. Berrain; 10. The Foundations of rap music and postcolonial emancipation – Guadeloupe Hip-Hop Florabelle Spielmann; 11. Konpa, Zouk and the politics of world music – Haiti, Dominica, Guadeloupe and Martinique Hélène Zamor and Apollinaire Anakesa Kululuka; 12. Globalisation in Reggae and the Dub Diaspora – Jamaica David V Moskowitz; 13. Musical orality and literacy in the transmission of knowledge and praxis – Trinidad and Tobago Felicity Laurence and Nanette de Jong; 14. Narratives of Return – Carriacou and the Big Drum Ritual Nanette de Jong and Linda F. Williams; 15. Decolonising Caribbean imaginings – Conclusion Nanette de Jong and Julio Nazario.