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Caribbean Performance

Caribbean Performance is a scholarly field of inquiry that examines performative expressions—including music, dance, theatre, ritual, and oral traditions—within the Caribbean region, distinguished by its focus on the ways in which performance embodies cultural identity, historical memory, resistance, and social transformation in Caribbean societies.

87

Publications

6.1K

Citations

94

Authors

25

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

6

Variants

Caribbean Performance Studies

Parents

Publications

87

Cities of the dead: circum-Atlantic performance

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 1.8K citations

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Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica

Donald R. Hill · American Ethnologist · 2001 · 360 citations

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The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture.

John C. Messenger, Roger D. Abrahams · Man · 1984 · 285 citations

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Listening in detail: performances of Cuban music

Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 266 citations

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Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba

Janine Lewis, Yvonne Daniel, Barbara Browning et al. · TDR/The Drama Review · 1996 · 224 citations

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Authors

94

  1. CC
    Carolyn Cooper

    Macmillan Cancer Support, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 346 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. SS
    Sonjah Stanley-Niaah

    University of the West, United States

    2 publications · 74 citations

    2

    h-index

  3. SS
    Sonjah Stanley Niaah

    University of the West Indies System, Jamaica

    2 publications · 55 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. EH
    Errol Hill

    2 publications · 142 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. HF
    Honor Ford-Smith

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 52 citations

    2

    h-index

1–5 of 94

Institutions

25

  1. University of the West

    Rosemead, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    114 citations

  2. University of the West Indies System

    Kingston, Jamaica

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    113 citations

  3. Macmillan Cancer Support

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    160 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  5. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    140 citations

  6. Florida International University

    Miami, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  7. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    186 citations

  8. University of Freiburg

    Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 11 publications · 2.7K citations

    11

    h-index

  2. Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

    3 publications · 104 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. Ethnomusicology

    3 publications · 60 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. Callaloo

    2 publications · 33 citations

    2

    h-index

  5. TDR/The Drama Review

    2 publications · 259 citations

    2

    h-index

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