Making Caribbean Dance [electronic resource] : Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures /
Sloat, Susanna.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2010.
From the evolution of Indian dance in Trinidad to the barely known rituals of los misterios in the Domincan Republic, this volume looks closely at the vibrant & varied movement vocabulary of the islands.
Rigidigidim de bamba de : a calypso journey from start to ... / Cynthia Oliver -- Tangled roots : Kalenda and other neo-African dances in the circum-Caribbean / Julian Gerstin -- Rumba encounters : transculturation of Cuban rumba in American and European ballrooms / Juliet McMains -- My experience and experiments in Caribbean dance / Ramiro Guerra -- The Africanness of dance in Cuba / Graciela Chao Carbonero -- Secrets under the skin : they brought the essence of Africa / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Haitian migration and danced identity in eastern Cuba / Grete Viddal -- When Jamaica dances : context and content / Cheryl Ryman -- Dance, divas, queens, and kings : dance and culture in Jamaican dancehall / Sonjah Stanley Niaah -- Ghanaian Gome and Jamaican Kumina : West African influences / Isaac Nii Akrong -- Chimin Kwaze : crossing paths, or Haitian dancemaking in Port-au-Prince / Celia Weiss Bambara -- Dance of the Dominican misterios / Martha Ellen Davis -- How to dance son and the style of a Dominican sonero / Xiomarita Pérez -- The drums are calling my name / Nicolás Dumit Estévez -- Contemporary dance in Puerto Rico, or how to speak of these times / Susan Homar -- Bele and quadrille : African and European dimensions in the traditional dances of Dominica, West Indies / Janet Wason -- Helen, heaven and I : in search of a dialogue / Tania Isaac -- Dance in Barbados : reclaiming, preserving, and creating national identities / Susan Harewood and John Hunte -- Big drum dance of Carriacou/ Annette C. Macdonald -- Tradition reaffirming itself in new forms : an overview of Trinidad and Tobago folk dances / Hazel Franco -- A narrative on the framework of the presence, change, and continuity of Indian dance in Trinidad / Ravindra Nath "Raviji" Maharaj.
From the evolution of Indian dance in Trinidad to the barely known rituals of los misterios in the Domincan Republic, this volume looks closely at the vibrant & varied movement vocabulary of the islands.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-356) and index.
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