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Njoroge M. Njoroge Chocolate Surrealism: Music, Movement, Memory, and History in the CircumCaribbean. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. x + 194 pp. (Cloth US$65.00)
In Chocolate Surrealism, Njoroge Njoroge has written a survey of selected music cultures in the Caribbean and the United States, presenting them as exemplars of the dynamism of black NewWorld artistic expression. His book supplements what is by now a quite substantial body of literature on these idioms.
The introduction addresses notions of "black Marxism" and "black science" and suggests that continuities among diverse genres might be found in concepts of polyrhythm and "rootwork"; however,...