Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures
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Making Caribbean Dance connects the dance of the islands with their rich multicultural histories and complex identities. Delving deep into the many forms of ritual, social, carnival, staged, experimental, and performance dance, the book explores some of the most mysterious and beloved, as well as rare and little-known, dance traditions of the region.
The Dance Claimed Me: a Biography of Pearl Primus
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Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In The Dance Claimed Me, Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an intimate perspective on her life and explore her influences on American culture, dance, and education. They trace Primus's path from her childhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad, through her rise as an influential international dancer, an early member of the New Dance Group (whose motto was "Dance is a weapon"), and a pioneer in dance anthropology.
Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance
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Yvonne Daniel provides a cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres. In discussing relationships among African, Caribbean, and other diasporic dances, Daniel investigates social dances brought to the islands by Europeans and Africans, including quadrilles and drum-dances as well as popular dances that followed, such as Carnival parading, Pan-Caribbean danzas, rumba, merengue, mambo, reggae, and zouk. Daniel reviews sacred dance and closely documents combat dances, such as Martinican ladja, Trinidadian kalinda, and Cuban juego de maní.
Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba
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From the barrio and streets to the theatre and stage, rumba has emerged as an important medium, contributing to national goals, and promoting international prestige. Using dance anthropology to illuminate the values and attitudes embodied in rumba, this work explores the relationship between dance and the complex changes in contemporary Cuba.
An Ethnographic Study of Papadjab, an Afro-Caribbean Devil Dancer
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This book examines the religious, mythological and performance elements of the traditional Afro-Caribbean street festival. Using the theories of performance, political economy and symbolic analysis, this work elucidates how elements of African, European and South American cultures interact to produce a unique understanding of the colonial and post-colonial experience.
The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion, and Living Death
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arah Juliet Lauro plots the zombie's cultural significance through Caribbean literature, Haitian folklore, and American literature, film, and the visual arts. The zombie entered US consciousness through the American occupation of Haiti, the site of an eighteenth-century slave rebellion that became a war for independence, thus making the figuration of living death inseparable from its resonances with both slavery and rebellion.
Screening Cuba: Film Criticism As Political Performance During the Cold War
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n examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations of Cuban and U.S. critics are the result of the political cultures in which they operated. While Cuban critics viewed the films as powerful symbols of the social promises of the Cuban revolution, liberal and leftist American critics found meaning in the films as representations of anti-establishment progressive values and Cold War discourses.
Contact Zones: Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema
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Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. Likewise, black diasporic film tends to focus on the complexities of transnational identity, which oscillates between similarity and difference and resists easy categorization.
On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking During Times of Transition
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Stock focuses on what she calls Street Filmmaking--the production of emerging audiovisual artists who work outside the state film industry--to examine the island's transformation and changing notions of Cuban identity. Employing entrepreneurial approaches to producing art and to negotiating the exigencies of globalization, this younger generation of filmmakers offers fresh perspectives on what it means to be Cuban in an increasingly complex and connected world.
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
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A guide to the cultural festivals, traditional culture, musical forms, dances, instruments, music education, government institutions concerned with music, and copyright mechanisms in Belize, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua and Barbado, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad & Tobago, and Guyana
Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
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It offers a behind the scenes examination of music from a Cuban point of view. Revealed are how the music of black slaves transformed 16th century Europe, how the slaves appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues.
Rock It Come Over: the Folk Music of Jamaica
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The making of a musician -- Slavery : old souls in a New World -- Conflicting concepts of wealth -- Music for work, play and the spirit -- Mento and other styles for dance, entertainment and ceremony -- Maroon, Tambo, Goombeh, Ettu, Nago -- Revivalism and Rastafarianism -- The Kumina Cult -- Queenie Kennedy : her life -- Queenie Kennedy : her teachings and her work.
Cut 'n' mix: Culture, Identity, and Caribbean Music
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Information on West African roots, current Caribbean politics, calypso of Trinidad, Rastafarian religious teachings, reggae's continuing metamorphosis, women DJs, British two-tone ska, New York rap, and lovers' rock.
Cuban Music: from Son and Rumba to The Buena Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana
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Ritual music -- Comparsas and congas : the "carnival" celebrations -- The rumba -- Punto and tonadas of the rural regions -- The danzón : pre-history and posterity from the quadrille to the cha-cha-cha -- Song : trova, boléro, feeling -- The son -- Music since the Revolution -- By way of a provisional epilogue : Buena Vista Social Club or timba cubana?
Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
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pt. I. The History of Merengue, 1854-1961. 2. Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Merengue. 3. Merengue Cibaeno, Cultural Nationalism, and Resistance. 4. Music and the State: Merengue during the Era of Trujillo, 1930-1961 -- pt. II. The Contemporary Era, 1961-1995. 5. Merengue in the Transnational Community. 6. Innovation and Social Issues in Pop Merengue. 7. Merengue on the Global Stage. 8. Enduring Localism
DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto
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DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.
Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain From King Tubby to Post-Punk
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Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique pioneered in Jamaica as far back as 1967. Recording engineers produced reggae tracks on which the efforts of the producer were often more evident than those of the musicians – these heavily engineered tracks were termed ‘versions'. The techniques used to produce versions quickly evolved into what is now known as ‘dub'.
Time and Memory in Reggae Music: The Politics of Hope
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On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and the late 1990s, this book offers a sociological analysis of memory hope and redemption in reggae music.
The Music of Santería: Traditional Rhythms of the Batá Drums
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Caribbean Festival Arts
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Introduces the festival arts of the Caribbean, wherein elements of dance, sculpture, painting, music and poetry intermingle. Vibrant photos--of Jonkonnu, a Christmas parade in Jamaica, the Lenten carnival of Rara in Haiti, the Hosay celebration of Trinidad, New Orleans' Caribbean-inspired Mardi Gras and others--illustrate this in-depth study. An examination of festival incarnations on the various Caribbean islands explores the inter-island differences and the socio-political implications of the masquerade.
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
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Exhibition catalog from UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
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Divine Utterances: the Performance of Afro-Cuban Santería
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Fieldwork: Dreaming Ogun -- El Espectaculo: Invitation to the Dance -- Embodying the Sacred in Afro-Cuban Performance: Negotiating the Rules of Engagement -- Blurring the Boundaries: Merging Sacred and Profane -- The Birth of the Conjunto Folklorico -- Sacred Crimes: Criminalizing the Sacred in Historical Perspective -- Resolver and Religious Tourism in Cuba.
Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas
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Thompson examines the altar traditions in cultures from the Atlantic coast region of Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Street Graphics Cuba
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Much of today's most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery can be found in the street. All over the world, the street has become a public art gallery of visual icons, each city with permanent collections and temporary exhibits, each country with its own much-loved identity.
Carnival : Culture in Action – The Trinidad Experience
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Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of "carnival" that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event.
Afro-Cuban Religious Arts: Popular Expressions of Cultural Inheritance in Espiritismo and Santería
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This book profiles four generations of women from one Afro-Cuban religious family. From a plantation in Havana Province in the 1890s to a religious center in Spanish Harlem in the 1960s, these women were connected by their prominent roles as leaders in the religions they practiced and the dramatic ritual artwork they created.
In Extremis: Death and Life in Twenty-First-Century Haitian Art
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Focusing on artistic evocations of the irrepressible Gedes-an increasingly dominant family of trickster deities-In Extremis examines the striking disjunction between social collapse and artistic flourescence in twenty-first century Haiti. It brings together the work of 34 artists, most of them living in Port-au-Prince, where they produce remarkable and controversial bodies of work in a variety of media while confronting on a daily basis the realities of Haiti's frustratingly slow recovery.
Art Cuba: the New Generation
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Summary: An examination of Cuban art at the start of the twenty-first century, presenting one hundred full-color plates of works by more than sixty artists, and essays by leading Cuban art critics and historians.
Puerto Rico '00 [Paréntesis En La "Ciudad"]
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"In this publication we aim to present literally a visual and written report of what went on at PUERTO RICO'00 [PARENTHESIS IN THE "CITY"] on 9-14 October [2000]
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
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Espacios en transición-Transición en espacios
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Inaugural catalogue for the museum. Exhibition is a sample of contemporary Puerto Rican art consisting of nine installations that were mounted for only 4 hours while the building (that previously was a hospital) was closed and in transition to becoming the current museum. Artists include: Charles Juhasz, Rosa Irgoyen, Arnaldo Morales, Ernesto Pujol.
Ana Mendieta
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Foreword / Ralph Rugoff -- Ana Mendieta : traces / Stephanie Rosenthal -- Embers / Adrian Heathfield -- Against the body : interpreting Ana Mendieta / Julia Bryan-Wilson -- Plates -- Anthology : map, conversations, lectures, notebooks, installation views, postcards, ephemera.
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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El Muro: The Wall
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El muro by Eduardo Hernández Santos is ten triptych photographs documenting the Cuban LGBTQ community. "Working in the dark of night he printed them on expired photo paper and with exhausted chemistry, in his bedroom-turned-darkroom in Centro Habana."
Pepón Osorio
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