Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION. This and That, or, Swiped Calypsos 1
5. ONE. Stolen Time: The Ontology of Black Fad Performance 31
6. TWO. The Calypso Program: Technology, Performance, Cinema 62
7. THREE. Carnivalizing Jazz: Duke Ellington’s Calypso Theater and the Diasporic Instant 102
8. FOUR. Surfacing the Caribbean: Black Broadway and Mock Transnational Performance 132
9. FIVE. Working against the Music: Geoffrey Holder’s Elsewhen 163
10. CONCLUSION. Don’t Stop the Carnival 206
11. NOTES 213
12. INDEX 243