Introduction : contradance and quadrille culture in the Caribbean / Peter Manuel -- Cuba : from contradanza to danzón / Peter Manuel -- Puerto Rico : the rise and fall of the danza as national music / Edgardo Díaz Díaz and Peter Manuel -- The Dominican Republic : danza and the contradanced merengue / Peter Manuel -- Creole quadrilles of Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia / Dominique O. Cyrille -- Haiti : tracing the steps of the méringue and contredanse / Michael Largey -- The English-speaking Caribbean : re-embodying the colonial ballroom / Kenneth M. Bilby and Daniel T. Neely
Summary
How contradance and quadrille gave rise to merengue, danzón and other popular Creole dances
