Music in Latin America and the Caribbean Vol. 2 Performing the Caribbean Experience : University of Texas Press : 9780292709515 : 029270951X : 15 Mar 2006 : The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs beliefs, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of ?The Universe of Music: A History? project, initiated by and developed i