Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae, Revised Edition - Hardcover

Manuel, Peter; Bilby, Kenneth; Largey, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1592134629 ISBN 13: 9781592134625

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Music is the most popular and dynamic aspect of Caribbean expressive culture. From the well-known genres—salsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and bachata—to more localized forms like chutney and kaseko, this wide-ranging book surveys Caribbean music's prodigious diversity and colorful history. Enhanced with numerous illustrations and musical examples, Caribbean Currents is an up-to-date overview of the region's music, covering Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Suriname, and smaller islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe. Engaging descriptions of musical forms and innovations, festivals and dance halls, as well as musicians and fans, are situated in the context of the modern genres' relationship to issues of race, regional diversity, gender, and socio-political conflicts. This revised and expanded version features:

* Twenty-seven new illustrations

* Recent developments in the region's music, such as the emergence of reggaetón and timba

* A new and extensive study of Jamaican dancehall

About this title

About the Author

Peter Manuel is Professor of Music at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of five books and many articles on musics of India, the Caribbean, Spain, and elsewhere. He also plays sitar, jazz piano, and flamenco guitar. Kenneth Bilby is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.

Michael Largey is Associate Professor of Music at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

From the Back Cover

Praise for the First Edition: "Professor Manuel is a superb ethnomusicologist with several important books to his credit. He is well versed in the intricacies of hybrid music forms on the Caribbean... This is an excellent summary volume on Caribbean music." Raul Fernandez, Professor of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine

"This excellent book encompasses Caribbean music in all its diversity and complexity. Manuel shows a great deal of contemporary sensibility and sensitivity in covering this fertile region of world music he is able to relate the many musical traditions present in the region to those that are present in world music today." Juan Flores, Director, Centro de Estudio Puertoriqueños, City University of New York

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592134629
• ISBN 13: 9781592134625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336