Ron Emoff, Associate Professor, School of Music and Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University-Newark, USA.

'... of interest to scholars, particularly those interested in Caribbean music and diasporic identity... In his book Representing African Music (2003), African musicologist Kofi Agawu exhorts scholars to approach scholarship on African and diasporic music from a postcolonial perspective that gives due attention, thought, and legitimacy to communities and traditions that have previously been ignored or marginalized. Emoff answers Agawu's call by giving voice to the history, musicality, and culture of Marie-Galante. Rather than allowing Marie-Galantais culture to be absorbed into that of Guadeloupe (as is so often the case,) Music and Performance illuminates the legitimate space that Marie-Galantais have carved out for themselves on a small island in the French Antilles.' Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology

• Contents: Preface: stepping out-of-the-way; Introduction: an out-of-the-way island; Tradition and official versions of history; Aimé Césaire, language, and the subsurreal; Gwo Ka drumming and claiming a sound place; Being/not being French: Kadril; Mayoleur, the festival stage, Rastafarianism; Conclusion: histories within histories; Works cited; Index.

Ron Emoff, Associate Professor, School of Music and Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University-Newark, USA.

'... of interest to scholars, particularly those interested in Caribbean music and diasporic identity... In his book Representing African Music (2003), African musicologist Kofi Agawu exhorts scholars to approach scholarship on African and diasporic music from a postcolonial perspective that gives due attention, thought, and legitimacy to communities and traditions that have previously been ignored or marginalized. Emoff answers Agawu's call by giving voice to the history, musicality, and culture of Marie-Galante. Rather than allowing Marie-Galantais culture to be absorbed into that of Guadeloupe (as is so often the case,) Music and Performance illuminates the legitimate space that Marie-Galantais have carved out for themselves on a small island in the French Antilles.' Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology

• Contents: Preface: stepping out-of-the-way; Introduction: an out-of-the-way island; Tradition and official versions of history; Aimé Césaire, language, and the subsurreal; Gwo Ka drumming and claiming a sound place; Being/not being French: Kadril; Mayoleur, the festival stage, Rastafarianism; Conclusion: histories within histories; Works cited; Index.

Ron Emoff, Associate Professor, School of Music and Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University-Newark, USA.

'... of interest to scholars, particularly those interested in Caribbean music and diasporic identity... In his book Representing African Music (2003), African musicologist Kofi Agawu exhorts scholars to approach scholarship on African and diasporic music from a postcolonial perspective that gives due attention, thought, and legitimacy to communities and traditions that have previously been ignored or marginalized. Emoff answers Agawu's call by giving voice to the history, musicality, and culture of Marie-Galante. Rather than allowing Marie-Galantais culture to be absorbed into that of Guadeloupe (as is so often the case,) Music and Performance illuminates the legitimate space that Marie-Galantais have carved out for themselves on a small island in the French Antilles.' Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology

• Contents: Preface: stepping out-of-the-way; Introduction: an out-of-the-way island; Tradition and official versions of history; Aimé Césaire, language, and the subsurreal; Gwo Ka drumming and claiming a sound place; Being/not being French: Kadril; Mayoleur, the festival stage, Rastafarianism; Conclusion: histories within histories; Works cited; Index.