David F. Garcia is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Analyzing the African Origins of Negro Music and Dance in a Time of Racism, Fascism, and War  21
2. Listening to Africa in the City, in the Laboratory, and on Record  74
3. Embodying Africa against Racial Oppression, Ignorance, and Colonialism  124
4. Disalienating Movement and Sound from the Pathologies of Freedom and Time  173
5. Desiring Africa, or Western Civilization's Discontents  221
Conclusion. Dance-Music as Rhizome  268
Notes  277
Bibliography  323
Index  345