Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean
By: edited by Peter Manuel.
Contributors: Manuel, Peter, 1952-
Series: Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592137343
Subjects: Dance -- Caribbean Area; Dance music -- Caribbean Area; Music -- Caribbean Area; Country-dances -- Caribbean Area; Quadrille (Dance) -- Caribbean Area
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : contradance and quadrille culture in the Caribbean / Peter Manuel; title: Cuba : from contradanza to danzon / Peter Manuel; title: Puerto Rico : the rise and fall of the danza as national music / Edgardo Diaz Diaz and Peter Manuel; title: The Dominican Republic : danza and the contradanced merengue / Peter Manuel; title: Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia : creole quadrilles / Dominique Cyrille; title: Haiti : tracing the steps of the meringue and contredanse / Michael Largey; title: The English-speaking Caribbean : re-embodying the colonial ballroom / Kenneth Bilby and Daniel Neely.