"Collecting essays by means of fourteen professional individuals right into a trans-oceanic get together and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo express how track, dance, and pop culture flip methods of remembering Africa into African methods of remembering.  With a mixture of Nuyorican, Cuban, Haitian, Kenyan, Senegalese, Trinidagonian, and Brazilian beats, Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World proves that the pleasures of poly-rhythm belong to the world of the discursive in addition to the sonic and the kinesthetic."

---Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater, Yale University

"As helpful because it is impressive, Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World dances throughout, past, and in the Black Atlantic Diaspora with the aplomb and talent befitting its editors and contributors."

---Mark Anthony Neal, writer of Soul infants: Black pop culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

Along with associated modes of religiosity, track and dance have lengthy occupied a imperative place within the ways that Atlantic peoples have enacted, made experience of, and replied to their encounters with one another. This special number of essays connects countries from around the Atlantic---Senegal, Kenya, Trinidad, Cuba, Brazil, and the USA, between others---highlighting modern well known, folkloric, and spiritual song and dance. through monitoring the continual reframing, revision, and erasure of aural, oral, and corporeal lines, the individuals to Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World jointly argue that tune and dance are the dwelling facts of a continuing (re)composition and (re)mixing of neighborhood sounds and gestures.

Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World distinguishes itself as a set concentrating on the movement of cultural kinds around the Atlantic global, tracing the trails trod by means of a number track and dance varieties inside of, throughout, or past the diversity of locales that represent the Atlantic international. The editors and members accomplish that, in spite of the fact that, with out assuming that those paths were both constantly according to nationwide, neighborhood, or continental barriers or consistently transnational, transgressive, and completely hybrid/syncretic. This assortment seeks to reorient the discourse on cultural types relocating within the Atlantic global by way of paying attention to the specifics of the forms---their particular geneses, the categorical makes use of to which they're placed by means of their creators and shoppers, and the categorical ways that they commute or churn in place.

Mamadou Diouf is Leitner family members Professor of African reviews, Director of the Institute of African reviews, and Professor of historical past at Columbia University.

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is affiliate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Jacket photo through Elias Irizarry