Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Island Connections 1. Rigidigidim De Bamba De: A Calypso Journey from Start to . . . 3 Cynthia Oliver 2. Tangled Roots: Kalenda and Other Neo-African Dances in the Circum-Caribbean 11 Julian Gerstin Cuba 3. Rumba Encounters: Transculturation of Cuban Rumba in American and European Ballrooms 37 Juliet McMains 4. My Experience and Experiments in Caribbean Dance 49 Ramiro Guerra 5. The Africanness of Dance in Cuba 62 Graciela Chao Carbonero 6. Secrets Under the Skin: They Brought the Essence of Africa 67 Jill Flanders Crosby 7. Haitian Migration and Danced Identity in Eastern Cuba 83 Grete Viddal Jamaica 8. When Jamaica Dances: Context and Content 97 Cheryl Ryman 9. Dance, Divas, Queens, and Kings: Dance and Culture in Jamaican Dancehall 132 Sonjah Stanley Niaah 10. Ghanaian Gome and Jamaican Kumina: West African Influences 149 Isaac Nii Akrong Haiti 11. Chimin Kwaze: Crossing Paths, or Haitian Dancemaking in Port-auPrince 165 Celia Weiss Bambara Dominican Republic 12. Dance of the Dominican Misterios 181 Martha Ellen Davis 13. How to Dance Son and the Style of a Dominican Sonero 198 Xiomarita Pérez 14. The Drums Are Calling My Name 203 Nicolás Dumit Estévez Puerto Rico 15. Contemporary Dance in Puerto Rico, or How to Speak of These Times 211 Susan Homar Dominica 16. Bele and Quadrille: African and European Dimensions in the Traditional Dances of Dominica, West Indies 227 Janet Wason St. Lucia 17. Helen, Heaven, and I: In Search of a Dialogue 247 Tania Isaac Barbados 18. Dance in Barbados: Reclaiming, Preserving, and Creating National Identities 265 Susan Harewood and John Hunte Carriacou 19. Big Drum Dance of Carriacou 285 Annette C. Macdonald Trinidad and Tobago 20. Tradition Reaffirming Itself in New Forms: An Overview of Trinidad and Tobago Folk Dances 297 Hazel Franco 21. A Narrative on the Framework of the Presence, Change, and Continuity of Indian Dance in Trinidad 321 Ravindra Nath “Raviji” Maharaj Bibliography 337 About the Contributors 357 Index 363 ...