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Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean / edited by Peter Manuel.

Other author/creatorManuel, Peter, 1952-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Temple University Press,
Description281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Studies in Latin American and Caribbean music
Contents Introduction : contradance and quadrille culture in the Caribbean / Peter Manuel -- Cuba: from contradanza to danzon / Peter Manuel -- Puerto Rico: the rise and fall of the danza as national music / Edgardo Diaz Diaz and Peter Manuel -- The Dominican Republic: danza and the contradanced merengue / Peter Manuel -- Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia: creole quadrilles / Dominique Cyrille -- Haiti: tracing the steps of the meringue and contredanse / Michael Largey -- The English-speaking Caribbean: re-embodying the colonial ballroom / Kenneth Bilby and Daniel Neely.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2008043730
ISBN9781592137343 (cloth : alk. paper)

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