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Contents 1 Introduction: Contradance and Quadrille Culture in 1 the Caribbean / Peter Manuel 2 Cuba: From Contradanza to Danzón / Peter Manuel 51 3 Puerto Rico: The Rise and Fall of the Danza as 113 National Music / Edgardo Díaz Díaz and Peter Manuel 4 The Dominican Republic: Danza and the Contradanced 155 Merengue / Peter Manuel 5 Creole Quadrilles of Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, 188 and St. Lucia / Dominique O. Cyrille 6 Haiti: Tracing the Steps of the Méringue and 209 Contredanse / Michael Largey 7 The English-Speaking Caribbean: Re-embodying the 231 Colonial Ballroom / Kenneth M. Bilby and Daniel T. Neely Contributors 271 Contents of the Compact Disc 273 Index 275 ...

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