Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World: Rituals and Remembrances

CONTENTS
Introduction
Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

PART I: Religion
The Economic Vitamins of Cuba: Sacred and Other Dance Performance
Yvonne Daniel

Performing Pentecostalism: Music, Identity, and the Interplay of Jamaican and African American Styles
Melvin l. Butler 41

“The Women Have on All Their Clothes”: Reading the Texts of Holy Hip-Hop
Deborah Smith Pollard 55

PART II: dance
Rhythmic Remembrances
Yvonne Daniel

Citizenship and Dance in Urban Brazil: Grupo Corpo, a Case Study
Lucía M. Suárez 95

Muscle/Memories: How Germaine Acogny and Diane McIntyre Put Their Feet Down
Susan Leigh Foster 121

“To Carry the Dance of the People Beyond”: Jean Léon Destiné, Lavinia Williams, and Danse Folklorique Haïtienne
Millery Polyné

PART III: contemporary music
Motherland Hip-Hop: Connective Marginality and African American Youth Culture in Senegal and Kenya
Halifu Osumare 161

New York Bomba: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and a Bridge Called Haiti
Raquel Z. Rivera 178

Talking Drums: Soca and Go-Go Music as Grassroots Identity Movements
Deidre R. Gantt 200

Warriors of the Word: Rapso in Trinidad’s Festival Culture
Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy 214

Timba Brava: Maroon Music in Cuba
Umi Vaughan 234

Salsa Memory: Revisiting Grupo Folklórico y Experimental Nuevayorquino
Juan Flores and René Lopez 256

Epilogue: Performing Memories—The Atlantic Theater of Cultural Production and Exchange
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 269

Contributors
Index