Direct Democracy
Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
A provocative account of what motivates prolific mass movements teeming for revolutionary change
What She Go Do
Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music
How women have expanded the creative reach of calypso, soca, and steelband music
The Music of the Netherlands Antilles
Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart
An exploration of an overlooked Caribbean musical tradition and the European, African, and New World influences that created it
Caribbean Masala
Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad
How Indian descendants maintained their culture and grew their influence in the Caribbean
Riding with Death
Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince
The extraordinary story of sculptors and their incredible creations in Haiti
Resisting Paradise
Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture
How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar
Steelpan Ambassadors
The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999
The lost, melodious history of a Cold War drumbeat that harmonized Caribbean steel with the best of America
Geographies of Cubanidad
Place, Race, and Musical Performance in Contemporary Cuba
A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba
Beyond Windrush
Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature
A challenge to the primacy of the Windrush generation as the sole founders of Caribbean literature
City of Islands
Caribbean Intellectuals in New York
How Caribbean thinkers have broadly influenced American culture and the quest for racial justice
Chocolate Surrealism
Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the Circum-Caribbean
A vibrant take on the global connections empowering Caribbean music and its global transferences
Island at War
Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
An illuminating study of the Caribbean island’s contributions to the American war effort
Musical Life in Guyana
History and Politics of Controlling Creativity
A study of how Caribbean music and identity evolve when the government controls all media
The Black Carib Wars
Freedom, Survival, and the Making of the Garifuna
The most detailed history of the Black Caribs of St Vincent
The Grenada Revolution
Reflections and Lessons
A detailed examination of the broad implications of Marxist revolution, politics, and the eventual invasion of the island nation
The Legacy of Eric Williams
Into the Postcolonial Moment
A study of the contributions of a public intellectual and a former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Wolf Tracks
Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama
How red devil buses and self-taught artists have enlivened one Latin American nation
The Artistry of Afro-Cuban Batá Drumming
Aesthetics, Transmission, Bonding, and Creativity
An investigation of one of the most sophisticated, intriguing, and elusive of the world’s drumming traditions
The Caribbean Novel since 1945
Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State
How fiction, its forms, and its evolution reflect countries in the midst of postcolonial change
Patrick Chamoiseau
A Critical Introduction
An opening into the life, novels, fictions, and manifestos of a noted Caribbean author