By Peter Manuel,Michael Largey
The authors succinctly and perceptively situate the musical types and advancements within the context of subject matters of gender and racial dynamics, sociopolitical heritage, and diasporic dimensions. Caribbean Currents showcases the wealthy and numerous musics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, the lesser Antilles, and their transnational groups within the usa and in other places to supply an interesting landscape of this such a lot dynamic element of Caribbean culture.
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