Artists, teachers, administrators, and researchers survey many facets of dance in the region, both folk dance from African and colonial heritages, and art dance that has mingled those traditions with others around the world. Among the topics are kalenda and other neo-African dances in the circum-Caribbean, the transculturation of Cuban rumba in American and European ballrooms, Ghananian gome and Jamaican kumina, Haitian dancemaking in Port-au-Prince, how to dance son and the style of a Dominican sonero, contemporary dance in Puerto Rico, African and European dimensions in the traditional dances of Dominica, reclaiming and preserving dance in Barbados, the big drum dance of Carriacou, and tradition reaffirming itself in new forms in Trinidad and Tobago folk dances. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)