"Noises in the Blood is a highly original and important study that will change the direction of literary/cultural studies in the Caribbean. Fascinating and forcefully written."-Stewart Brown, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham "Noises in the Blood theorizes aspects of Caribbean popular culture in an exciting and new manner."-Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Wellesley College "Carolyn Cooper's book is lively, stimulating, challenging, witty, and skillfully-written. Noises in the Blood is the kind of text that a range of scholars and specialists and general readers in oral literature, cultural studies, African diaspora and Caribbean studies, popular culture, and cross-cultural literatures will find useful, helpful, and necessary."-Carole Boyce Davies, State University of New York, Binghamton