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Caribbean Music Resources:  Select Bibliographies

This is a work in progress.  Any suggestions for additions are appreciated.
 

By Category:

By Country:

·         Scholarly
·         General Interest

 

·         Barbados
·         Cuba
·         Dominican Republic
·         Haiti
·         Jamaica
·         Martinique
·         Puerto Rico
·         St. Lucia
·         Trinidad

 

 
 
 

Scholarly Publications

Books

Alvarez, Fabio Betancur. Sin clave y bongo no hay son: Musica Afrocubana y confluencias musicales de Colombia y Cuba.

Amira, John and Steve Cornelius. 1999.  The music of Santería: Traditional rhythms of the batá drums (Performance in World Music Series, No. 5).  Crown Point, Ind.: White Cliffs Media Co.

Averill, Gage. 1997.  A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: Popular music and power in Haiti.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Ayala, Cristina Diaz. 2000. The roots of salsa: The history of Cuban musicWilliam Zinn.

_____.  1994. Cuba canta y baila: Discografia de la musica Cubana primer volumen (1898-1925).  Ediciones Universal.

Ayala, Cristóbal Díaz.  1999.  La marcha de los jíbaros: 1898-1997, Cien años de música Puertorriqueña por el mundo.  Includes compact disc.  Río Piedras, PR: Plaza Mayor.

Benoit, Edouard. Musique populaire de la Guadeloupe: De la biguine au zouk, 1940-1980

Berrian, Brenda. 2000.  Awakening spaces: French Caribbean popular song, music, and culture.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Bettelheim, Judith, ed.  2001.  Cuban festivals: A century of Afro-Cuban culture.  Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.

Chang, Kevin O’Brian, Wayne Chen.  1998. Reggae routes: The story of Jamaican music.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Constant, Denis.  Aux sources du reggae: Musique, societé et politique en Jamaique.  (out of print)

Cowley, John.  West Indian gramophone records in Britain, 1927-1950.

Daniel, Yvonne.  1995. Rumba: Dance and social change in contemporary Cuba (Blacks in the diaspora). Bloomfield:  Indiana University Press.

Dauphin, Claude.  Musiques au voudou  (out of print)

Dower, Catherine.  1983.   Puerto Rican music following the Spanish American war, 1898: The aftermath of the Spanish American war and its influence on the musical culture of Puerto RicoLanham, MD:  University Press of America. 

Dufrasnes-González, J. Emanuel.  1985.  La homogeneidad de la música Caribeña: Sobre la música comercial y popular de Puerto Rico.  ??

Evora, Tony.  1997.  Orígenes de la música Cubana: Los amores de las cuerdas y el tamborMadrid:  Alianza.

Fleurant, Gerdès. 1996.  Dancing spirits: Rhythms and rituals of Haitian vodun, the rada rite.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Flores, Juan.  2000.  From bomba to hip-hop: Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

Glasser, Ruth.  1995.  My music is my flag: Puerto Rican musicians and their New York communities, 1917-1940. University of California Press. 

Grupe, Gerd. Kumina-gesèange: Studien zur traditionellen afrojamaikanischen musik (out of print) 

Jahn, Brian, ed. 1998.  Reggae island: Jamaican music in the digital age.  Da Capo Press. 

Manuel, Peter.  2000. East Indian music in the West Indies: Tan-singing, chutney, and the making of Indo-Caribbean culture (Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music Series).  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.  

______.  1992. Essays on Cuban music: North American and Cuban perspectives.  University Press of America.  

Martínez, José Luis.  1993.  El músico y la música popular en la narrativa hispanocaribeña.  ???

McDaniel, Lorna.  1998. The big drum ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs for rememory of flight.  Gainesville:  University of Florida Press. 

Moore, Robin. 1997Nationalizing blackness: Afrocubanismo and artistic revolution in Havana, 1920-1940.  Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press.

Ortiz, Fernando. 1975.  La musica Afrocubana.  Madrid : Ediciones Júcar.

_____. 1985.  Los bailes y el teatro de los negros en el folklore de Cuba.  La Habana, Cuba : Editorial Letras Cubanas.

_____.  Los tambores bata.  (out of print)

_____. 1993. La africanía de la música folklórica de CubaLa Habana, Cuba: Editorial Letras Cubanas.


Ramnarine, Tina K.  2001.  Creating their own space: The development of an Indo-Caribbean musical tradition.  Mona, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press.

Rosemain, Jacqueline. La musique dans la société Antillaise: 1635-1902, Martinique, Guadeloupe.

Stolzoff, Norman.  2000. Wake the town and tell the people: Dancehall culture in Jamaica. Fordham University Press.

Thompson, Annie Figueroa.  1975.  An annotated bibliography of writings about music in Puerto Rico.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: Music Library Association.

Thompson, Donald.  1991.  Music and dance in Puerto Rico from the age of Columbus to modern times:  An annotated bibliographyMetuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press.

Uri, Alex. Musiques & musiciens de la Guadeloupe: Le chant de karukéra.

Velez, Maria Teresa. 2000.  Drumming for the gods: The life and times of Felips Garcia Villamil, santero, palero, and abakua.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Warner-Lewis, Maureen.  1994.  Yoruba songs of Trinidad.  London: Karnak House.

Wilcken, Lois. 1992.  The drums of Vodou.  Tempe, AZ:  White Cliffs Media Company.

Williams, Curdell. Rajhni Williams: Assassinated prince of reggae dancehall (out of print) 

Articles

Aparicio, Frances R.  1997.  Así son: Salsa music, female narratives, and gender (de)construction in Puerto Rico.  In Daughters of Caliban: Caribbean women in the twentieth century.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press.

Beckles, Hilary and Harclyde Walcott.  1995.  Redemption Sounds:  Music, Literature and the Popular Ideology of West Indian Cricket Crowds. In Liberation cricket: West Indies cricket culture.  Manchester, England:  Manchester University Press.

Benitez-Rojo, Antonio.  1998.  The role of music in the emergence of Afro-Cuban culture.  Research in African Literatures 29, no. 1: 179.

____________ and James Maraniss.  1999.  The role of music in the emergence of Afro-Cuban culture.  In The African diaspora: African origins and new world identities.  Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Mazrui, ed.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Boggs, Vernon W.  1991.  Musical transculturation: From Afro-Cuban to Afro-Cubanization. Popular Music and Society  15, no.4: 71.

Burton, Richard D.E.  1995.  Cricket, carnival and street culture in the Caribbean.  In Liberation cricket:  West Indies cricket culture.  Manchester, England:  Manchester University Press.

Carpentier, Alejo.  Music in Cuba.  Transition: An International Review no. 81/82: 172.

Chatburn, Thomas.  1990.  Trinidad All Stars:  The steel pan movement in Britain.  In Black music in Britain:  Essays on the Afro-Asian contribution to popular music. Philadelphia: Open University.

Cowley, John. 1990.  London is the place:  Caribbean music in the context of the Empire, 1900-60.  In Black music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian contribution to popular music. Philadelphia:  Open University.

Cuthbert, Marlene and Avonie Brown.  1997.  Local musicians in Jamaica:  A case study.  In Whose master’s voice?: The development of popular music in thirteen cultures.  Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press.

Davis, Martha Ellen.  1994.  “Bi-musicality" in the cultural configurations of the Caribbean.  Black Music Research Journal 14, no. 2: 145.

Duany, Jorge.  1990.  Salsa, plena, and danza:  Recent publications on Puerto Rican popular music.   Revista de Musica Latinoamericana 11, no. 2: 286.

Floyd Jr., Samuel A.  1999.  Black music in the circum-Caribbean.  American Music 17, no. 1: 1.

Hernandez, Deborah Pacini. 1998.  Dancing with the enemy:  Cuban popular music, race, authenticity, and the world-music landscape.  Latin American Perspectives 25, no.3: 110.

_________.  1993.  A view from the south: Spanish Caribbean perspectives on world beat.  World of Music 35, no.2: 48.

Hill, Donald.  1998.  West African and Haitian influences on the ritual and popular music of Carriacou, Trinidad, and Cuba.  Black Music Research Journal 18, no.1/2:  183.

Hintzen, Percy.  1999.  Identity, arena, and performance:  Being West Indian in the San Francisco bay area.  In Representations of blackness and the performance of identities.  Jean Muteba Rahier, ed.  Westport, Conn.: Bergin & Garvey, 1999.

Jacques, Geoffrey.  1998.  Cubop!  Afro-Cuban music and mid-Twentieth Century American culture.  In Between race and empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban revolution. Lisa Brock and Digna Castañeda Fuertes, ed.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Juste-Constant, Vogeli. 1990.  Haitian popular music in Montreal: The effect of acculturation.   Popular Music 9, no.1: 79.

Largey, Michael.  1994.  Composing a Haitian cultural identity: Haitian elites, African ancestry, and musical discourse.  Black Music Research Journal 14, no.2: 99.

Manuel,Peter.  2000.  The construction of a diasporic tradition:  Indo-Caribbean "Local Classical Music.” Ethnomusicolog 44, no.1: 97.

______.  1998.  Gender politics in Caribbean popular music:  Consumer perspectives and academic interpretation.  Popular Music and Society 22, no.2: 11.

______.  1994.  Puerto Rican music and cultural identity: Creative appropriation of Cuban sources from danza to salsa.  Ethnomusicology 38, no.2: 249.

Marks, Anthony.  Young, gifted and black: Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean music in Britian, 1963-88.  In Black music in Britain: Essays on the Afro-Asian contribution to popular music. Philadelphia:  Open University.

McDaniel, Lorna.  1922.  The concept of nation in the big drum dance of Carriacou, Grenada.  In Musical repercussions of 1492:  Encounters in text and performance.  Carol E. Robertson, ed.  Washington:  Smithsonian Institution Press.

Moore, Robin.  1993.  Directory of Latin American and Caribbean music theses and dissertations since 1988.  Latin American Music Review 14, no.1: 145.

_____.  1989.  “Primitivist" art and Afro-Cuban music: Developmental parallels in the Twentieth Century.   Journal of Caribbean Studies 7, no.2/3: 181.

Morris, Nancy.  1999.  Cultural interaction in Latin American and Caribbean music.  Latin American Research Review 34, no.1: 187.

O’Mahoney, Terry.  1997.  An abbreviated history of Cuban music and percussion.  Percussive Notes 35, no.1: 14.

Padilla, Felix M.  1990.  Salsa:  Puerto Rican and latino music.  Journal of Popular Culture 24, no. 1:  87.

Pickney, Jr., Warren R.  1989.  Puerto Rican jazz and the incorporation of folk music: An analysis of new musical directions. Latin American Music Review 10, no.2: 236.

Ramnarine, Tina K.  1998.  Historical representations, performance spaces, and kinship themes in Indian-Caribbean popular song texts.   Asian Music 30, no.1: 1.

Reckord, Verena.  1998.  From burru drums to reggae riddims: The evolution of rasta music.  In Chanting down Babylon:  The rastafari reader.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Regis, Humphrey.  1992.  Three Caribbean islands’ interest in popularity of Caribbean music.  Caribbean Studies 25, no.1/2: 123.

_____.  1990.  The prediction of liking for the music of contemporary Caribbean musicians using perceptions of their popularity.  Caribbean Studies 23, no.3/4: 95.

Richards, Sandra L.  1999.  Horned ancestral masks, Shakespearean actor boys, and Scotch-inspired set girls:  Social relations in nineteenth-century Jamaican jonkonnu.  In The African diaspora:  African origins and new world identities.  Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Mazrui, ed.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Robbins, James.  1989.  Practical and abstract taxonomy in Cuban music.  Ethnomusicology 33, no.3: 379. 

Thompson, Donald.  1989.  Music in Puerto Rican public ceremony:  Fiestas reales, fiestas patronales, ferias, and exposiciones:  A chronological list of official reports and similar documents, 1746-1897.  Inter-American Music Review 10, no.2: 135.

Tumas-Serna, Jane.  1995.  Mass-mediated popular music and cultural change:  The Cuban new song movement.  Journal of Communication Inquiry 19, no.1: 111.

Warner, Keith Q.  1988.  Calypso, reggae, and rastafarianism:  Authentic Caribbean voices. Popular Music and Society 12, no.1: 53.

Washburne, Christopher.  1997.  The clave of jazz:  A Caribbean contribution to the rhythmic foundation of an African-American music.  Black Music Research Journal 17, no.1: 59.

Wilcken, Lois. 1992.  Power, ambivalence and the remaking of Haitian vodoun music in New York.  Latin American Music Review 13, no.1: 1.

Zigel, Leslie Jose. 1994.  Constricting the clave: The United States, Cuban music and the new world order.  The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 26, no.1: 129.

Dissertations and Theses

Alston, James Anthony.  1996.  The role of music in Rastafarian society in Jamaica, 1930-1995.  Ph.D. diss., University of Pittsburgh 

Boyce, Carole Elizabeth.  The Trinidad calypso: An analysis of the functions of an African oral tradition in the Caribbean.  M.A. thesis, Howard University.

Bragg, David Alwyn.  1971.  The teaching of music concepts in the elementary schools of Puerto Rico.  Ph.D. diss., Florida State University.

Centeno, Jesus Manuel.  1996.  The political-musical phenomenon in Puerto Rico: 1930-1975.  Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University.

Davis, Hope Alysia.  1997.  Trevor Alvin Beckford, school and church music educator: An examination of his contribution to music education in Jamaica.  Ph.D. diss., University of Southern Mississippi.

Dufrasnes-Gonzalez, J. Emanuel.  1985.  La homogeneidad de la musica caribena: Sobre la musica comercial y popular de Puerto Rico.  Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles.

Espada, Annette M.  1994.  The evolution of violoncello performance and teaching in Puerto Rico: The legacy of Pablo Casals.  Ph.D. diss., University of Miami.

Figueroa, Ivonne.  1991.  A narrative chronology of the musical life and contributions of the Figueroa-Sanabia family.  Ph.D. diss., New York University.

Fitzmaurice, Robert M.  1970.  Music education in Puerto Rico: A historical survey with guidelines for an exemplary curriculum.  Ph.D. diss., Florida State University.

Frontera, Nelida Munoz de.  1988.  A study of selected nineteenth century Puerto Rican composers and their musical output.  Ph.D. diss., New York University.

Gallaugher, Annemarie.  1991.  From Trinidad to Toronto: Calypso as a way of life.  Ph.D. diss., York University.

Gonzalez, Roberto Juan.  1983.  Selected orchestral works by Puerto Rican composers born between 1945 and 1956.  Ph.D. diss., Ball State University.

Guilbault, Jocelyne M.  1984.  Musical events in the lives of the people of a Caribbean island, St. Lucia.  Ph.D. diss.,  University of Michigan.

Henry, Steinberg D.  1991.  Language, music and the struggle for political and socio-economic change (The case of Dominica, 1974-1978).  Ph.D. diss., University of Windsor.

Hernandez, Alberto Hector.  1990.  Puerto Rican piano music of the nineteenth-century.  Ph.D. diss., Columbia University Teachers College.

King, Stephen Alan.  1997.  "Redemption Song" in Babylon: The evolution of reggae and the Rastafarian movement.  Ph.D. diss., Indiana University.

Landry, Jacques Serge.  1993.  The classical guitar in Puerto Rico.  Ph.D. diss., University of Miami.

Lankford, Andrew Brian.  1999.  The integration of the trombone into the conjunto ensembles of salsa music.  Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Martinez, Jose Luis.  1993.  El musico y la musica popular en la narrativa Hispanocaribena.  Ph.D. diss., University of Texas at Austin.

McCoy, James A.  1968.  The bomba and aguinaldo of Puerto Rico as they have evolved from indigenous, African and European cultures.  Ph.D. diss., Florida State University.

McDaniel, Lorna Angela.  1986.  Memory songs: Community, flight and conflict in the big drum ceremony of Carriacou, Grenada.  Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland College Park.

Montalvo, Jose A.  1992.  Hector Campos Parsi, his life and music: A biographical study with an analysis of four selected works.  Ph.D. diss., New York University.

Mulvaney, Bechy Michele.  1985.  Rhythms of resistance: On rhetoric and reggae music.  Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa.

Otero Garabis, Juan.  1998.  Naciones ritmicas: La construction del imaginario en la musica popular y la literatura del Caribe hispano.  Ph.D. diss., Harvard University.

Rivera-Guzman, Felix.  1993.  A rhythmic riddle: A guide to the performance of rhythms in the piano danzas of Juan Morel Campos.  Ph.D. diss., University of Miami.

Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Aixa L.  1995.  Music as a form of resistance: A critical analysis of the Puerto Rican new song movement's oppositional discourse.  Ph.D. diss., University of Massachusetts 

Rommen, Timothy.  2002. "Watch out my children": Gospel music and the ethics of style in Trinidad and Tobago.  Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago.

Toro Vargas, Cirilo.  1992.  Diccionario de biografias musicales de Puerto Rico.  Ph.D. diss., The Union Institute.

Trotman, Althea Veronica.  1993.  African-Caribbean perspectives of worldview: C.L.R. James explores the authentic voice.  Ph.D. diss., York University.

Vargas, Barbara Kay.  1989.  Salsa music: Primary dimensions of meaning in an expressive cultural form--The Puerto Rican experience as chronicled via salsa lyric poetics.  Ph.D. diss., University of California, Irvine.

Warner, Charles R.  1993.  Jah as genre: The interface of reggae and American popular music.  Ph.D. diss., Bowling Green State University.

Wood, Vivian Nina Michelle.  1995.  Rushin' hard and runnin' hot: Experiencing the music of the Junkanoo parade in Nassau, Bahamas.  Ph.D. diss., Indiana University.

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General Interest

 Books

Aparicio, Frances. 1997.  Listening to salsa : Gender, Latin popular music, and Puerto Rican cultures.  Middletown, CT:  Wesleyan University Press.

Behague, Gerard, ed.  1979.  Music in Latin America:  An introduction.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall. 

Bergman, Billy.  Hot Sauces:  Latin and Caribbean pop.  New York:  Quill.

Boggs, Vernon W.  1992.  Salsiology:  Afro-Cuban music and the Evolution of salsa in New York City.  New York:  Greenwood Press.

Manuel, Peter.  1995.  Caribbean Currents: Caribbean music from rumba to reggae.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Ospina, Hernando Calvo.  1995.  Salsa!:  Havana heat, Bronx beat.  Translated by Nick Caistor.  New York:  Monthly Review Press.

Potash, Chris, ed. 1997.  Reggae, rasta, revolution : Jamaican music from ska to dub.  New York:  Schirmer Books; London:  Prentice Hall International 

Quintero Rivera, Angel G.  1998.  Salsa, sabor y control!:  Sociología de la música “Tropical”.  La Habana, Cuba:  Casa de las Américas.

Sealey, John and Krister Malm.  1983.  Music in the Caribbean.  Introduction by the Mighty Chalkdust (Hollis Liverpool).  London:  Hodder and Stoughton.

Schecter, John, ed. 1999.  Music in Latin American culture:  Regional traditions. New York : Schirmer Books.

Shukman, Henry.  1993.  Travels with my trombone:  A Caribbean journey.  New York:  Crown Publishers.

Simon, Peter, Stephen Davis.  1979.  Reggae Bloodlines : In search of the music and culture of JamaicaGarden City, NY:  Anchor Press/Doubleday.

Wenders, Wim.  2000.  Buena Vista Social Club:  The companion book to the film.  New York:  te Neues. Includes an interview with Ry Cooder.

White, Timothy.  1998.  Catch a Fire : The life of Bob Marley.  Owl Books.

Sound Recordings and Video

Afro-Cuba: a musical anthology. Program notes by Morton Marks, with bibliography.  Rounder Records CD 1088.   1991.  Compact disc.

Amira, John.  1994.  The Music of Santeria:  The Oru del Igbodu.  White Cliffs Media Co.  Compact disc.

Blank, Les.  1995.  Sworn to the Drum:  A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella. Flower Films. Videocassette.

Caliente = Hot: Puerto Rican and Cuban Musical Expression in New York. Program notes by Roberta Singer and Robert Friedman.  New World Records.  1997.  Compact disc.

Grupo Afrocuba.  1997. Cuba. Smithsonian Folkways Records.  Compact disc.

MacAllister, Elizabeth. 1997.  Angels in the mirror : Voodoo music of Haiti (compact disc with accomp. Book).  Relaxation Company.

Pozo, Chano, et al.  1992.  Legendary sessions. Chano Pozo & Arsenio Rodriguez with Machito and his orchestra. Tumbao Cuban Classics.  Compact disc.

Rough guide to the music of Cuba. Program notes by Jan Fairley and Tom Andrews. World Music Network. 1997.  Compact disc.

Sacred Rhythms of Cuban Santería = Ritmos Sagrados de la Santéria cubana. Smithsonian/Folkways. SF 40419. 1991.  Compact disc.

Salsa mundo:  Afro-Cuban music from around the globe.  Candela. CD4023.  1998.  Compact disc.

The Bob Marley story. BBC/Island Visual Arts Ltd.  1986.  Videocassette.

Trio Matamoros.  1992. The legendary Trio Matamoros 1928-1937. Tumbao Cuban Classics.  Compact disc.

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Cuba

Bibliography

Amira, John, and Steve Cornelius.

1992 The Music of Santería : Traditional Rhythms of the Batá Drums. Crown Point, IN : White Cliffs Media Co.

Behague, Gerard, ed.

1994 Music and Black Ethnicity : the Caribbean and South America. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers.

Bettelheim, Judith, ed. 

2001.  Cuban festivals: A century of Afro-Cuban culture.  Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.

Boggs, Vernon

1992 Salsiology : Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution of Salsa in New York City. New York : Excelsior Music Pub. Co.

Manuel, Peter, ed.

1991 Essays on Cuban music: North American and Cuban Perspectives. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

Moore, Robin

1997 Nationalizing Blackness : Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940. Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press.

Discography

Amira, John

1994 The Music of Santeria: The Oru del Igbodu. Accompanies book of same title that includes transcriptions. Tempe, AZ : White Cliffs Media Co. CD2532

Blank, Les

1995 Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella. El Cerrito, CA : Flower Films, 35 min. WU-OLIN ML399 .S86 1995

Grupo Afrocuba

1997 Cuba. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways Records. CD3599

Pozo, Chano, et al.

1992 Legendary sessions. Chano Pozo & Arsenio Rodriguez with Machito and his orchestra. Switzerland : Tumbao Cuban Classics. TC-MEDIA M1635.C37 P696 1992

Rodriguez, Alfredo

1993 Para Yoya. Bleu Caraïbes.

Sandoval, Arturo

1994 Danzón. Program notes by Fernando Gonzalez. New York: GRP.

Trio Matamoros

1992 The legendary Trio Matamoros 1928-1937. Tumbao Cuban Classics. Distributed by Camarillo Music

Various artists

1977 Caliente = Hot: Puerto Rican and Cuban Musical Expression in New York. Program notes by Roberta Singer and Robert Friedman. New York, NY: New World Records. CD 1945

1990 A Carnival of Cuban Music. Cambridge, MA: Rounder.

1991 Antologia de la Musica Cubana, Vol.I-III. Artex: CD-045.

Afro-Cuba: a musical anthology. Program notes by Morton Marks, with bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Rounder Records CD 1088.

Sacred Rhythms of Cuban Santería = Ritmos Sagrados de la Santéria cubana. Washington, DC : Smithsonian/Folkways: SF 40419.

1996 Ritmo y candela: Patato, Changuito & Orestes. Program notes by Greg Landau with vocal texts. San Francisco: Round World Music Productions.

1997 Rough guide to the music of Cuba. Celina Gonzalez. Program notes by Jan Fairley and Tom Andrews in English. London: World Music Network.

1998 Salsa mundo: Afro-Cuban music from around the globe. Rohnert Park, CA: Candela, [1998?]

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Dominican Republic

Bibliography

Austerlitz, Paul

1997 Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Behague, Gerard, ed.

1994 Music and Black Ethnicity : the Caribbean and South America. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers.

Brito Ureña, Luis Manuel

1997 El Merengue y La Realidad Existencial de Los Dominicanos: Bachata y Nueva Cancion. Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.: Unigraf.

González Canahuate, L. Almanzor, ed.

1988 Recopilación de La Música Popular Dominicana. Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.: [s.n.]

Pacini Hernandez, Deborah

1995 Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Discography

Guerra, Juan Luis

1990 Bachata Rosa. Hialeah Gardens, FL: Karen; New York N.Y.:  BMG.

1996 Grandes exitos de Juan Luis Guerra y Grupo 4 40. Miami, FL: Karen.

Various artists

1991 Caribbean Revels: Haitian Rara and Dominican Gaga. Notes by Verna Gillis and Gage Averill. Originally issued in 1978 as Folkways 4531. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian/Folkways.

1995 Mento Merengue Méringue: Country Dance Music from Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Haiti & the Dominican Republic. Tivoli, NY: Original Music.

1997 Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity. Program notes in English by Paul Austerlitz. Cambridge, MA: Rounder Records.

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Puerto Rico

Bibliography

Bloch, Peter

1973 La-Le-Lo-Lai; Puerto Rican Music and Its Performers. New York: Plus Ultra Educational Publishers.

Flores, Juan. 

2000  From bomba to hip-hop: Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity.  New York:  Columbia University Press.

Glasser, Ruth

1995 My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press.

López Cruz, Francisco

1967 La Música Folklórica de Puerto Rico. Prólogo: Walter F. Starkie. Dibujos: Antonio Martorell. Sharon, CT: Troutman Press.

Muñoz Santaella, María Luisa

1966 La Música en Puerto Rico: Panorama Histórico-Cultural. Sharon, CT: Troutman Press.

Thompson, Annie Figueroa

1975 An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Music in Puerto Rico. Ann Arbor, MI: Music Library Association.

Thompson, Donald

1991 Music and Dance in Puerto Rico from the Age of Columbus to Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Discography

Jiménez, Manuel

1990 Plenas/ [interpretadas por] Canario y Su Grupo Previously released as ALP 1232. East Rutherford, NJ: Ansonia.

Pleneros de la 21

1989 Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Mi Tierra Natal. Newton, NJ: Shanachie.

1996 Somos Boricuas= We Are Puerto Rican. Program notes in English, including lyrics in Spanish with English translations. Cambridge, MA: Henry Street Records.

Solis, Theodore

1989 Puerto Rican Music in Hawaii: Kachi-Kachi. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian/Folkways Records.

Various artists

198- Caliente= Hot. Recorded Anthology of American Music. New York, NY: New World Records.

Zayas, Edwin Colón

Bien Jibaro!: Country Music of Puerto Rico. Cambridge, MA: Rounder.

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Haiti

Bibliography

Allen, Ray, ed.

1988 "Taking Spirit Time: The Vodoun Sounds of Haiti." From Voices of the Americas: Traditional Music and Dance from North, South and Central America, and the Carribean. New York: World Music Institute.

Averill, Gage

1997 A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Fleurant, Gerdès

1996 Dancing Spirits: Rhythms and Rituals of Haitian Vodun, the Rada Rite. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Largey, Michael

1991 Musical Ethnography in Haiti: A Study of Elite Hegemony and Musical Composition. Photocopy. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.

McAlister, Elizabeth

1995 "Men Moun Yo": "Here Are the People": Rara Festivals and Transnational Popular Culture in Haiti and New York City. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services.

1997 Angels in the mirror: Vodou music of Haiti. 64p. booklet accompanying sound recording. Roslyn, NY: Ellipsis Arts.

Wilcken, Lois

1992 The Drums of Vodou. Tempe, AZ: White Cliffs Media; New York, NY : Distributed by the Talman Co.

Discography

Augustin, Frisner

1994 The Drums of Vodou, Featuring Frisner Augustin. Complements the book, The Drums of Vodou written by Lois Wilcken (1992). Tempe, AZ: White Cliffs Media.

Boukman Eksperyans

1991 Vodou Adjae. Brief program notes by Gage Averill. Lyrics in container are in Creole with English translation. New York: Mango.

Coupé Cloué

1979 The World of Coupé Cloué International. North Baldwin, NY: Mini Records; Distributed by Maxison Distribution.

Magnum Band

1993 Tet Ensem: Magnum Band, Le Seule Difference. Miami, FL: M.M.I. Records.

McAlister, Elizabeth

1995 Rhythms of Rapture: Sacred Musics of Haitian Vodou. Program notes by Elizabeth McAlister. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian/Folkways: SF CD 40464.

1997 Angels In the Mirror: Vodou Music of Haiti. 64p. Booklet with notes by Elizabeth McAlister. Roslyn, NY: Ellipsis Arts.

Mini All Stars

1980 Greatest Hits. N. Baldwin, N.Y.[?]: Mini Records.

Tabou Combo

1992? Anthology. Vol. V: 1979-1986.

Various artists

1989 Konbit Sound Recording: Burning Rhythms of Haiti. Compiled by Jonathan Demme. Program notes by Gage Averill and Jonathan Demme in English and texts of the songs with English translations. Hollywood, CA: A&M Records.

1991 Beat of Haïti: Anthology. Mini Records.

1991 Caribbean Revels: Haitian Rara and Dominican Gaga. Notes by Verna Gillis and Gage Averill. Originally issued in 1978 as Folkways 4531. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian/Folkways.

1993 Roots of Haïti: Voodoo, Volume 1. New York : Mini Records; Distributed by Maxison Distribution.

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Martinique

Bibliography

Cally, Sully

1990 Musiques et danses afro-caraïbes: Martinique. Gros-Morne [Martinique]: Sully-Cally/Lezin.

Discography

Alexander Stellio Orchestra

1992 Au Bal Antillais: Franco-Creole Biguines from Martinique. El Cerrito, CA: Arhoolie Productions.

Diapason

1990 Diapason, Vol.III. (Zouk music, played in a Haitian style) Martinique: Hibiscus Records.

Ti Emile

199? Ti Emile. Collection prestige de la musique caribeenne. Martinique: Hibiscus Records: 191170-2.

Various artists

1991 Orchestres Créoles quand Paris Biguinait, 1930-1940.

1993 Global Celebration. (Vol.4) Roslyn, NY: Ellipsis Arts.

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Jamaica

Bibliography

Barrow, Steve and Peter Dalton

1997  Reggae:  The Rough Guide.  London:  Rough Guides, Ltd.

Potash, Chris

1997  Reggae, Rasta, Revolution:  Jamaican Music from Ska to Dub.  New York: Schirmer Books.

Stolzoff, Norman C.

2000  Wake the Town and Tell the People:  Dancehall Culture in Jamaica.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Discography

Various artists

1992 Drums of defiance: Maroon music from the earliest free black communities of Jamaica. Washington DC: Smithsonian/Folkways.

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St. Lucia

Bibliography

Berrian, Brenda.

2000  Awakening spaces: French Caribbean popular song, music, and culture.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Discography

Guilbault, Jocelyne

1993 Musical traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies: dances and songs from a Caribbean Island. Recordings by Jocelyne Guilbault, Embert Charles and Manfred Kremser. Washington, DC: Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings; Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Rounder Records.

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Trinidad & Tobago

Bibliography

Manuel, Peter. 

2000 East Indian music in the West Indies: Tan-singing, chutney, and the making of Indo-Caribbean culture (Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Music Series).  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.  

Ramnarine, Tina K. 

2001 Creating their own space: The development of an Indo-Caribbean musical tradition.  Mona, Jamaica: University of West Indies Press.

Warner-Lewis, Maureen. 

1994 Yoruba songs of Trinidad.  London: Karnak House.

 

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