Sun, Sea, and Sound

Music and tourism, both integral to the culture and livelihood of the circum-Caribbean region, have until recently been approached from disparate disciplinary perspectives. Scholars who specialize in tourism studies typically focus on issues such as economic policy, sustainability, and political implications; music scholars are more likely to concentrate on questions of identity, authenticity, neo-colonialism, and appropriation. Although the insights generated by these paths of scholarship have long been essential to study of the region, Sun, Sea, and Sound turns its attention to the dynamics and interrelationships between tourism and music throughout the region. Editors Timothy Rommen and Daniel T. Neely bring together a group of leading scholars from the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, mobility studies, and history to develop and explore a framework - termed music touristics - that considers music in relation to the wide range of tourist experiences that have developed in the region. Over the course of eleven chapters, the authors delve into an array of issues including the ways in which countries such as Jamaica and Cuba have used music to distinguish themselves within the international tourism industry, the tourism surrounding music festivals in St. Lucia and New Orleans, the intersections between music and sex tourism in Brazil, and spirituality tourism in Cuba. An indispensable resource for the study of music and tourism in global perspective, Sun, Sea, and Sound is essential reading for scholars and students across disciplines interested in the Caribbean region.

Timothy Rommen received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2002. He specializes in the music of the Caribbean with research interests that include folk and popular sacred music, popular music, critical theory, ethics, diaspora, tourism, and the intellectual history of ethnomusicology. The majority of his research is focused on musics circulating in and around the Anglophone Caribbean.

- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Kenneth Bilby
- Introduction: Theorizing Music Touristics
- Timothy Rommen
- I. Music, Musicians, and the Mass Tourism Market
- 1. Modern Mento: The Emergence of Native Music in Jamaica Tourism
- Daniel Neely
- 2. Selling Cuba by the Sound: Music and Tourism in Cuba in the 1990s
- Vincenzo Perna
- II. Material and Immaterial Patterns of Circulation and Music Touristics
- 3. Cruising Cultures: Post-War Tourism and the Circulation of
- Caribbean Musical Performances
- Mimi Sheller
- 4. "Hello, New York City!": Sonic Tourism in Haitian Rara
- Michael Largey
- III. Sites and Sounds of Intra-regional, Expatriate, and Insider Tourism
- 5. Wanderers of Love: Touring and Tourism in the Jamaica-Haiti Musical
- Circuit of the 1950s.
- Matthew Smith
- 6. Outsider, insider, and imagined tourists: Musical and Cultural Tourism
- in the Dominican Republic
- Sydney Hutchinson
- 7. Celebrating Settlement Day in Belize
- Oliver Greene
- IV. Festivalizing Music Touristics
- 8. DestiNation: The Festival Gwoka, Tourism, and Anti-Colonialism
- Jerome Camal
- 9. "Jockomo Fee Na Nay!": Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Creole Sensorialities
- and the Festivalization of New Orleans' Musical Tourism
- Ruthie Meadows
- V. On the Music Touristics of Sex and Spirituality
- 10. Soundtracks of a Tropical Sexscape: Tropicalizing Northeastern Brazil,
- Channeling Transnational Desires
- Darien Lamen
- 11. Resorting to Spiritual Tourism: Sacred Spectacle in Afro-Cuban
- Regla de Ocha
- Katherine J. Hagedorn
- Afterword
- Jocelyne Guilbault