Music and tourism, both integral to the culture and livelihood of the circum-Caribbean region, have until recently been approached from disparate disciplinary perspectives. Scholars who specialize in tourism studies typically focus on issues such as economic policy, sustainability, and political implications; music scholars are more likely to concentrate on questions of identity, authenticity, neo-colonialism, and appropriation. Although the insights generated by these paths of scholarship have long been essential to study of the region, Sun, Sea, and Sound turns its attention to the dynamics and interrelationships between tourism and music throughout the region. Editors Timothy Rommen and Daniel T. Neely bring together a group of leading scholars from the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, mobility studies, and history to develop and explore a framework - termed music touristics - that considers music in relation to the wide range of tourist experiences that have developed in the region. Over the course of eleven chapters, the authors delve into an array of issues including the ways in which countries such as Jamaica and Cuba have used music to distinguish themselves within the international tourism industry, the tourism surrounding music festivals in Guadeloupe and New Orleans, the intersections between music and sex tourism in Brazil, and spirituality tourism in Cuba. An indispensable resource for the study of music and tourism in global perspective, Sun, Sea, and Sound is essential reading for scholars and students across disciplines interested in the Caribbean region.

Table of ContentsPrefaceKenneth BilbyIntroduction: Theorizing Music TouristicsTimothy RommenI. Music, Musicians, and the Mass Tourism Market1. Modern Mento: The Emergence of Native Music in Jamaica TourismDaniel Neely2. Selling Cuba by the Sound: Music and Tourism in Cuba in the 1990sVincenzo PernaII. Material and Immaterial Patterns of Circulation and Music Touristics3. Cruising Cultures: Post-War Tourism and the Circulation ofCaribbean Musical PerformancesMimi Sheller4. "Hello, New York City!": Sonic Tourism in Haitian RaraMichael LargeyIII. Sites and Sounds of Intra-regional, Expatriate, and Insider Tourism5. Wanderers of Love: Touring and Tourism in the Jamaica-Haiti MusicalCircuit of the 1950s.Matthew Smith6. Outsider, insider, and imagined tourists: Musical and Cultural Tourismin the Dominican RepublicSydney Hutchinson7. Celebrating Settlement Day in BelizeOliver GreeneIV. Festivalizing Music Touristics8. DestiNation: The Festival Gwoka, Tourism, and Anti-ColonialismJerome Camal9. "Jockomo Fee Na Nay!": Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Creole Sensorialitiesand the Festivalization of New Orleans' Musical TourismRuthie MeadowsV. On the Music Touristics of Sex and Spirituality10. Soundtracks of a Tropical Sexscape: Tropicalizing Northeastern BrazilChanneling Transnational DesiresDarien Lamen11. Resorting to Spiritual Tourism: Sacred Spectacle in Afro-CubanRegla de OchaKatherine J. HagedornAfterwordJocelyne Guilbault