The nearest thing we have in the twentieth century to a global folk music.

This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultu

John Chasteen examines the history behind sexually suggestive dances (salsa, samba, and tango) that brought people of different social classes and races togethe

A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.