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