Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalisation and diasporic identity among West Indians / Percy C. Hintzen -- Why we should not pair 'local' with 'culture' or 'global' with 'capitalism' / Daniel Miller -- From the metropole to the equator : carnival consciousness between New York and Trinidad / Philip W. Scher -- The relocation of Trinidad carnival in Notting Hill, London and the politics of diasporisation / Patricia T. Alleyne-Dettmers -- Carnival as lived meanings : producing Trini-style carnival in Jamaica / Hilary D. Brown -- Mix up the Indian with all the patwa : rajamuffin sounds in 'cool' Britannia / Carolyn Cooper -- 'Making and selling culture' : calypso music during carnival / Jocelyne Guilbault -- The globalisation of pan in South Florida and Caribbean diasporic identity / Christine G.T. Ho -- Chutney soca music in Trinidad : Indian ethno-nationalist expression in transnational perspective / Robin Balliger -- Hypernationalist discourse in the rapso movement of Trinidad and Tobago / Stephanie Sadre-Orafai -- Is globalisation helping or harming Caribbean cinema? / Keith Q. Warner -- 'That is not for beke.' Global versus local in two film versions of Sargasso / Jane Bryce -- International crossroads : reggae, dancehall, and the US recording industry / Mike Alleyne -- 'Authenticity' and the construction of identity in Trinidad carnival / Garth L. Green -- Popular culture and cultural industry : identity and commodification in Caribbean popular music / Keith Nurse -- Globalisation from below : Caribbean cultures, global technologies and the WTO / Hopeton S. Dunn.