Creolizing contradance in the Caribbean /
How contradance and quadrille gave rise to merengue, danzón and other popular Creole dances.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2009.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781592137367 1592137369 9786612284700 6612284706 1282284703 9781282284708 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : contradance and quadrille culture in the Caribbean / Peter Manuel
- Cuba : from contradanza to danzón / Peter Manuel
- Puerto Rico : the rise and fall of the danza as national music / Edgardo Díaz Díaz and Peter Manuel
- The Dominican Republic : danza and the contradanced merengue / Peter Manuel
- Creole quadrilles of Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia / Dominique O. Cyrille
- Haiti : tracing the steps of the méringue and contredanse / Michael Largey
- The English-speaking Caribbean : re-embodying the colonial ballroom / Kenneth M. Bilby and Daniel T. Neely.