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Peter Manuel is a professor of musicology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and author of Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey and Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae.

An expert explains and analyzes the beloved art form An iconic symbol of Spain, flamenco has become a global phenomenon. Peter Manuel offers English-language readers a rare portrait of the music¿s history, styles, and cultural impact. Beginning with flamencös Moorish and Roma influences, Manuel follows the music¿s evolution through its consolidation in the mid-1800s and on to the vibrant contemporary scene. An investigation of flamencös major ...

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Caribbean Currents is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers - music lovers and students of Caribbean society or of pan-American society in general

Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present.

A portrait of a diaspora community in motion. It documents the social and cultural development of a people "without history, " a people who have sometimes been dismissed as foreigners who merely perpetuate the culture of the homeland rather than becoming "truly" Caribbean.

Eine packende Story von glühenden alten Eisen mit grauen Haaren, bei denen das normale Altwerden nur Nebensache ist. Aktivität ist Leben, Leben ist Leidenschaft und Leidenschaft ist das zu tun, was einen glücklich macht. Warum also im Alter damit aufhören? Nach dem Motto, 'Wer rastet der rostet' erzählen unsere Protagonisten eindrucksvolle Geschichten, wie man im Alter durch Lebensfreude, Ergeiz und Beharrlichkeit Berge versetzen kann. Ein ins...

The contradance and quadrille, in their diverse forms, were the most popular, widespread, and important genres of creole Caribbean music and dance in the nineteenth century. This book explores this phenomenon with a pan-regional perspective. It features chapters that discuss the Spanish, French, and English-speaking Caribbean.

The first book-length study on Cuban music in the English language. This volume consists of thirteen articles written by nine authors, including four Cuban scholars and five North American ethnomusicologists. The articles by Cuban scholars, translated from largely out-of-print publications, constitute a selection of some of the best Cuban research on their island's music, and present a set of perspectives which complement those of the North Am...

Trinidadian sitarist, composer, and music authority Mangal Patasar once remarked about tan-singing", You take a capsule from India, leave it here for a hundred years, and this is what you get". Patasar was referring to what may be the most sophisticated and distinctive art form cultivated among the one and a half million East Indians whose ancestors migrated as indentured laborers from colonial India to the West Indies between 1845 and 1917. K...

Peter Manuel is Professor of Music at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of six books and many articles on musics of India, the Caribbean, Spain, and elsewhere, including East Indian Music in the West Indies (Temple). He also plays sitar, jazz piano, and flamenco guitar.

Life is an adventure to embark upon. Having traveled around the world, my life has been full of separations, and new beginnings. Time flows incessantly, no matter what happens around us. The last six years of my life describe a unique journey from high school in Sudan to a university in Canada. The experience enabled me to learn the importance of family, friends, and love- along with the need to live life without regrets. My story begins with ...

Life is an adventure to embark upon. Having traveled around the world, my life has been full of separations, and new beginnings. Time flows incessantly, no matter what happens around us. The last six years of my life describe a unique journey from high school in Sudan to a university in Canada. The experience enabled me to learn the importance of family, friends, and love- along with the need to live life without regrets. My story begins with ...

In "Cassette Culture, " Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium--the portable cassette player--caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, qual...

Peter Manuel is Professor of Music at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of seven books and many articles on musics of India, the Caribbean, Spain, and elsewhere. He also plays sitar, jazz piano, and flamenco guitar. ¿Michael Largey is Professor of Music at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Peter Manuel is Professor of Music at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of seven books and many articles on musics of India, the Caribbean, Spain, and elsewhere. He also plays sitar, jazz piano, and flamenco guitar. ¿Michael Largey is Professor of Music at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

Covers recent developments in the region's music and includes twenty-seven new illustrations. Written in a style that is readable, entertaining, and scholarly, it is an ideal resource for students, musicians, and general readers