The Music of the Future

In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision. It is a transnational, multidisciplinary study that will interest anyone who knows or wishes to learn about the Caribbean.

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Trinidad. His publications include Writing on the Fault Line: Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010 (Liverpool University Press, 2014), Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times (Liverpool University Press, 2015), and Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race (Liverpool University Press, 2022). He is Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State.

- Introduction: Sound Clashes
- Chapter One: Sounding Francophone Caribbean Poetics
- Chapter Two: Time Out in Trinidad: White "Expatriates" in the Late Colonial Period
- Chapter Three: Sound Touristics
- Chapter Four: Who Stole the Soul? Rhythm and Race in the Digital Age
- Coda: The Music of the Future
- Index