Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk : How Movement Shapes Identity / edited by Susanna Sloat.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-386) and index.

Discography (p. 386).

Crossroads, continuities, and contradictions : the Afro-Euro-Caribbean triangle / Brenda Dixon Gottschild -- What is Congolese in Caribbean dance / Nathaniel Hamilton Crowell, Jr.-- Cuban dance : an orchard of Caribbean creativity / Yvonne Daniel -- The dance world of Ramiro Guerra : solemnity, voluptuousness, humor, and chance / Melinda Mousouris -- The Tâecnica Cubana / Suki John -- Jamaican Dance Theatre : celebrating the Caribbean heritage / Rex Nettleford -- Rasta and reggae / Thomas Osha Pinnock -- Haitian Vodou ritual dance and its secularization / Henry Frank -- Spirit unbound : new approaches to the performance of Haitian folklore / Lois E. Wilcken -- Dominican folk dance and the shaping of national identity / Martha Ellen Davis -- A Dominican York in Andhra / Râamon H. Rivera-Servera -- Dance in Puerto Rico : embodied meanings / Alma Concepciâon -- Gilda Navarra : before Taller de Histriones / Alma Concepciâon -- The challenges of Puerto Rican bomba / Halbert Barton -- Winin' yo' wais' : the changing tastes of dance on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix / Cynthia Oliver -- Sa ki ta nou (This belongs to us) : Creole dances of the French Caribbean / Dominique Cyrille -- In search of the limbo : an investigation into its folklore as a wake dance / Molly Ahye -- The Moko Jumbie : elevating the children / Patricia T. Alleyne-Dettmers -- Tambu : Afro-Curaðcao's music and dance of resistance / Gabri Christa -- Katherine Dunham's Tropical Revue / VáeVáe A. Clark -- Islands refracted : recent dance on Caribbean themes in New York / Susanna Sloat -- Teaching the people to triumph over time : notes from the world of mambo / Robert Farris Thompson.