Sun, Sea, and Sound

Studies in both music and tourism are integral to understanding the culture and livelihood of the circum-Caribbean region, but until recently have been approached from separate perspectives. Sun, Sea, and Sound unites these two areas to bring forward a new framework of study- 'music touristics.' Over the course of eleven chapters, a distinguished, multi-disciplinary group of scholars explore a variety of localities, including Cuba, Jamaica, Brazil, St.Lucia, and New Orleans.

Timothy Rommen received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2002. He specializes in the music of the Caribbean with research interests that include folk and popular sacred music, popular music, critical theory, ethics, diaspora, tourism, and the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. The majority of his research is focused on musics circulating in and around the Anglophone Caribbean.

Table of Contents
Preface
Kenneth Bilby
Introduction: Theorizing Music Touristics
Timothy Rommen
I. Music, Musicians, and the Mass Tourism Market
1. Modern Mento: The Emergence of Native Music in Jamaica Tourism
Daniel Neely
2. Selling Cuba by the Sound: Music and Tourism in Cuba in the 1990s
Vincenzo Perna
II. Material and Immaterial Patterns of Circulation and Music Touristics
3. Cruising Cultures: Post-War Tourism and the Circulation of
Caribbean Musical Performances
Mimi Sheller
4. "Hello, New York City!": Sonic Tourism in Haitian Rara
Michael Largey
III. Sites and Sounds of Intra-regional, Expatriate, and Insider Tourism
5. Wanderers of Love: Touring and Tourism in the Jamaica-Haiti Musical
Circuit of the 1950s.
Matthew Smith
6. Outsider, insider, and imagined tourists: Musical and Cultural Tourism
in the Dominican Republic
Sydney Hutchinson
7. Celebrating Settlement Day in Belize
Oliver Greene
IV. Festivalizing Music Touristics
8. DestiNation: The Festival Gwoka, Tourism, and Anti-Colonialism
Jerome Camal
9. "Jockomo Fee Na Nay!": Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Creole Sensorialities
and the Festivalization of New Orleans' Musical Tourism
Ruthie Meadows
V. On the Music Touristics of Sex and Spirituality
10. Soundtracks of a Tropical Sexscape: Tropicalizing Northeastern Brazil,
Channeling Transnational Desires
Darien Lamen
11. Resorting to Spiritual Tourism: Sacred Spectacle in Afro-Cuban
Regla de Ocha
Katherine J. Hagedorn
Afterword
Jocelyne Guilbault