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Overviews

Caribbean Currents:
Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
by Peter Manuel, Michael Largey (Contributor), Kenneth Bilby (Contributor)
(via UK, via Europe)

New! Drumming for the Gods:
The Life and Times of Felips Garcia Villamil,
Santero, Palero, and Abakua

by Maria Teresa Velez

New! East Indian Music in the West Indies:
Tan-Singing, Chutney, and the Making
of Indo-Caribbean Culture

by Peter Lamarche Manuel

The Latin Tinge: The Impact of
Latin American Music on the United States

by John Storm Roberts
(via UK, via Europe)

Musica: Salsa, Rhumba, Merengue, and More
by Sue Steward
(via UK, via Europe)

Music and Black Ethnicity:
The Caribbean and South America

by Gerard H. Behague (Editor), University of Miami North-South Center
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Bahamas

The Day Is So Long and the Wages
So Small: Music on a Summer Island

by Samuel Barclay Charters
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Cuba

Essays on Cuban Music:
North American and Cuban Perspectives

by Peter Manuel (Editor)
(via UK)

The Music of Santeria:
Traditional Rhythms of the Bata Drums

by John Amira, Steven Cornelius

The Roots of Salsa:
The History of Cuban Music

by Cristobal Diaz Ayala

Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba
by Yvonne Daniel
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Dominican Republic

Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music
by Deborah Pacini Hernandez
(via UK, via Europe)

Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
by Paul Austerlitz, Robert Farris Thompson
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Grenada, Eastern Caribbean

The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou:
Praisesongs for Rememory of Flight

by Lorna McDaniel
(via UK, via Europe)

Island Sounds in the Global City:
Caribbean Popular Music & Identity in New York

by Ray Allen (Editor), Lois Wilcken (Editor)
(via UK, via Europe)

Brown Girl in the Ring:
An Anthology of Song Games from the Eastern Caribbean

by Alan Lomax (Compiler), J. D. Elder (Contributor)
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Haiti

Angels in the Mirror: Voodoo Music of Haiti
by Elizabeth A. McAlister
Book and CD
(via UK, via Europe)

Dancing Spirits
by Gerdes Fleurant
(via UK, via Europe)

A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey:
Popular Music and Power in Haiti

Gage Averill
(via UK, via Europe)

The Drums of Vodou
(Performance in World Music Series, No 8)

by Lois Wilcken
(via UK)

 

Jamaica

See:
    Bob Marley Books
   Reggae Books
   Rastafarian Books

 

Martinique and Guadaloupe

Zouk: World Music in the West Indies
by Jocelyne Guilbault, Gage Averill, Edouard Benoit, Gregory Rabess
(via UK, via Europe)

 

Trinidad

Calypso Calaloo:
Early Carnival Music in Trinidad

by Donald R. Hill
(via UK)

Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso:
Traditions in the Making

by John Cowley
(via UK, via Europe)

Kaiso! The Trinidad Calypso:
A Study of Calypso As Oral Literature

by Keith Q. Warner

Music of Hindu Trinidad:
Songs from the India Diaspora

by Helen Myers
(via UK, via Europe)

The Political Calypso:
True Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago

by Louis Regis
(via UK, via Europe)

The Steelband Movement: The Forging of
a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago

by Stephen Stuempfle
(via UK, via Europe)