New West Indian Guide 89 (2015) 61–68 nwig brill.com/nwig Review Articles ∵ How Readable is the Caribbean Soundscape? New Contributions to Music Bibliography Kenneth Bilby Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington dc 20013, u.s.a.
[email protected] From Vodou to Zouk: A Bibliographic Guide to Music of the French-Speaking Caribbean and its Diaspora. John Gray. Nyack ny: African Diaspora Press, 2010. xxxiv + 201 pp. (Cloth us$79.95) Jamaican Popular Music, from Mento to Dancehall Reggae: A Bibliographic Guide. John Gray. Nyack ny: African Diaspora Press, 2011. xvii + 435 pp. (Cloth us$99.95) Afro-Cuban Music: A Bibliographic Guide. John Gray. Nyack ny: African Dias- pora Press, 2012. xiv + 614 pp. (Cloth us$124.95) Baila! A Bibliographic Guide to Afro-Latin Dance Musics from Mambo to Salsa. John Gray. Nyack ny: African Diaspora Press, 2013. xv + 661 pp. (Cloth us$124.95) Times have certainly changed for the study of Caribbean music. Not so long ago, one might have realistically hoped to fit a comprehensive bibliography of the music of the entire region between the covers of a single volume. Such was John Gray’s ambition some two decades ago when he systematically began to assemble the materials that ended up distributed across these four vol- umes. (At one point, the plan was actually to combine Latin America and the © kenneth bilby, 2015 | doi: 10.1163/22134360-08901001 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (cc-by-nc 3.0) License.