Editor's introduction.(Editorial)

Publication: Black Music Research Journal

Publication Date: 22-SEP-06

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Center For Black Music Research

That this issue of BMRJ addresses a single broad subject is the result of happy coincidence: the almost simultaneous receipt of submissions that collectively brought together a number of issues related to the African diaspora in the circum-Carribean. Usually, thematic issues are the result of articles commissioned by an expert in a particular subject area serving as a guest editor. In the present instance, timing was everything.

The diversity of the subjects addressed in the following articles nevertheless reminds us that scholars in black music regularly confront two challenges. First, solutions to particular problems require critical analysis of source materials that in many instances have either been previously ignored or misread. Such work, by implication, confronts a second obstacle. A large amount of, frankly, Eurocentric scholarship must be critiqued rigorously to determine the extent to which it provides useful perspectives concerning the history and current...

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