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Table of Contents

Introduction: Islands and Music Studies 1 Don’t Rock the Boat – Sing! Maintaining Balance within a Coral Atoll Community 2 Spitting into the Wind: Multi-edged Environmentalism in Malagasy Song 3 Island Musicians: Making a Living from Music in Crete 4 ‘Ay Díos, Ampárame’ (O God, Protect Me): Music in Cuba during the 1990s, the ‘Special Period’ 5 Chindo Music: Creating a Korean Cultural Paradise 6 ‘Chilled Ibiza’: Dance Tourism and the Neo-tribal Island Community 7 Mainland Torres Strait Islander Songwriters and the ‘Magical Islands’ of the Torres Strait: Songs as Identity Narratives 8 Music in the Diasporic Imagination and the Performance of Cultural (Dis)placement in Trinidad 9 Between Mainland and Sea: The Taarab Music of Zanzibar

About the Author

Kevin Dawe Lecturer,School of Music, University of Leeds