| Summary: | This article centers on a 2024 roundtable titled "Listening With and From Caribbean Bodies / Escuchar con y desde cuerpos caribeños," convened by the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Latin America and Caribbean section (LACSEM) to explore listening as a method, metaphor, and practice in Caribbean ethnomusicology. The panel brought together Caribbean-based scholars and diaspora representatives to discuss how listening shapes Caribbean music scholarship, emphasizing decolonial, archipelagic, and embodied approaches that challenge dominant, often Anglophone- and US-centric narratives. Through detailed engagements with calypso, soca, bouladjel, and other regional musics, participants highlighted listening’s role in cultural memory, political critique, community building, and identity formation across linguistic and geographic divides. The transcript and reflections underscore listening as a communal, iterative, and affective practice that reveals the complex sonic ties uniting the Caribbean archipelago beyond colonial and national boundaries.
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