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

African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decade

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

Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field

The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on