Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

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 DÌos, Amp·rame' ( 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

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

10 British Islands: An Obsession of British Composers