Focus Music Of The Caribbean

Author : Sydney Hutchinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351602990

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Focus: Music of the Caribbean by Sydney Hutchinson Pdf

Focus: Music of the Caribbean presents the most important issues of Caribbean musical history and current practice, discussing thought-provoking questions in a student-friendly fashion. It uses current ethnomusicological research on Caribbean music to tell the stories of Caribbean history—those of colonialism and neocolonialism, race and nationalism, marginalization and globalization—and to explore that history’s continuing impact on the lives, cultures, musics, and dance of modern-day people in the Caribbean and beyond. In three parts, the text presents an embodied understanding of the sounds, rhythms, and movements that exemplify the history, culture, and politics of Caribbean music: I. Caribbean Music and Caribbean History establishes a framework for thinking about Caribbean musical history and the roles race and migration play II. Music and Dance in Caribbean Societies considers how contrasting forms of dance music reconcile competing ideas about Caribbean identities past and present III. Focusing In: The Social Lives of Musical Instruments in Merengue Típico explores the music of the Dominican Cibao region through a focus of the genre’s dominant musical instruments Accessible to all students regardless of musical background, Focus: Music of the Caribbean is bolstered by web resources, including more than sixty detailed listening guides and accompanying playlists, vocabulary lists, and student quizzes. Discussion questions and activities for each chapter are featured in the text.

Author : Peter Manuel,Kenneth Bilby,Michael Largey
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781592134649

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Caribbean Currents by Peter Manuel,Kenneth Bilby,Michael Largey Pdf

The classic introduction to the Caribbean's popular music brought up to date.

Author : David V. Moskowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313017629

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Caribbean Popular Music by David V. Moskowitz Pdf

Reggae music is more than just steel drum bands on white sand beaches. Its history is rich with culture and evolution, helping to tell the story of Jamaica's past. Due to its depth and extensive coverage, this book is the most complete and up to date encyclopedia about reggae, mento, ska, rocksteady, and dancehall music on the market today. Ideal for reggae lovers and college students studying music, this encyclopedia is comprehensive for high school students and non-music students as well. From Bob Marley to Wayne Wonder, this easy to use encyclopedia contains over 700 entries. Indices in both the front and back of the book make navigating through entries extremely user-friendly. Entries cover singers and songwriters, producers, record labels, and different styles of music that evolved from reggae. Moskowitz truly captures the history and evolution of Jamaican music in this extensive, illuminating encyclopedia, while all the while making it accessible to both high school and college students.

Author : Curwen Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401241

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Culture @ the Cutting Edge by Curwen Best Pdf

The anglophone Caribbean has long been celebrated and known for its vibrant and innovative music. Reggae, dancehall, calypso, soca, gospel and ringbang have flourished within the Caribbean and have exploded on the worldwide stage. Somewhat surprisingly, many facets of this contribution have not been analysed or discussed by academic writing. This work deliberately moves away from the customary exclusive focus on Trinidad and Jamaica and broadens the discourse to represent the wider region. It addresses such topics as the status of Caribbean gospel; the birth of new musical styles in the Eastern Caribbean; cultural misrepresentation in Caribbean music videos; the representation of Aids in Caribbean music; and the impact of the actual music technology utilized by Caribbean musicians since the 1980s.

Author : Timothy Rommen,Daniel Tannehill Neely
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199988853

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Sun, Sea, and Sound by Timothy Rommen,Daniel Tannehill Neely Pdf

Within the circum-Caribbean, the ubiquity of tourism and the variety of musical life are hard to miss. Scholars have long explored both of these themes in the Caribbean, but have done so from disciplinary perspectives that tended until recently (and for a variety of reasons) to foreclose readings that considered tourism and music together. This volume addresses itself to analyzing the dynamics and interrelationships between tourism and music throughout the region.

Author : Mark Brill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317346241

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Music of Latin America and the Caribbean by Mark Brill Pdf

The Music of Latin America and the Caribbean is the first text written on the rich musical heritage of this region specifically for the non-music major. The text is arranged by region, focusing on the major countries/regions (Mexico, Brazil, Peru, etc. in Latin America and Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Haiti, etc. in the Caribbean). In each chapter, the author gives a complete history of the region's music, ranging from classical and classical-influenced styles to folk and traditional music to today's popular music.

Author : Kenneth M. Bilby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Blacks
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023282405

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The Caribbean as a Musical Region by Kenneth M. Bilby Pdf

Author : Dick Hebdige
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134931040

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Cut `n' Mix by Dick Hebdige Pdf

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Sandra Pouchet Paquet,Patricia Joan Saunders,Stephen Stuempfle
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789766372903

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Music, Memory, Resistance by Sandra Pouchet Paquet,Patricia Joan Saunders,Stephen Stuempfle Pdf

"Calypsonians have long been the 'voice of the people', delivering the complaints, criticisms and even the solutions to political leaders. In its earliest manifestations, calypso music emerged in response to a cultural climate that demanded creative modes of expression that could both resist and record political and historical changes taking place in Trinidad and Tobago. Since the 1920s and 1930s, calypsonians typically have composed songs that chronicle their observations and opinions on current events focusing on specific occurrences, from local scandals to current affairs while also examining broader trends. Not only has calypso served as an unofficial record of historical events, it emerged as a cultural weapon that yielded tremendous sway within the general audiences of the Caribbean region. This collection includes contributions from calypsonians, critics, novelists and poets alike, all engaged in representing Caribbean culture in its myriad forms. It represents an array of convergences across critical perspectives, political and social agendas, generations and national boundaries. The work of numerous calypsonians and other singers are explored, including Sparrow; Kitchener; Chalkdust; Denise Belfon; and writers such as Samuel Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Errol John, Paul Marshall, Earl Lovelace and Lashkmi Persaud. The comparative analyses provide an interdisciplinary approach to Cultural Studies making the volume essential reading for students, scholars and calypso enthusiasts. "

Author : Larry Crook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135901974

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Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil by Larry Crook Pdf

Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is layered with complexity and diversity. Based on the author’s field research during the past twenty years, the book describes and analyzes the social/historical contexts and contemporary musical practices of Afro-Brazilian religion, selected Carnival traditions, Bahia’s black cultural renaissance, the traditions of rural migrants, and currents in new popular music. Part One, Understanding Music in Brazil, presents important issues and topics that encompass all of Brazil, and provides a general survey of Brazil’s diverse musical landscape. Part Two, Creating Music in Brazil, presents historical trajectories and contemporary examples of Afro-Brazilian traditions, Carnival music, and northeastern popular music. Part Three, Focusing In, presents two case studies that explore the ground-level activities of contemporary musicians in Northeast Brazil and the ways in which they move between local, national, and international realms. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid musical examples that are discussed in the text

Author : Natalie Sarrazin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429999314

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Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India by Natalie Sarrazin Pdf

Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India examines India’s musical soundscape beyond the classical and folk traditions of old to consider the culturally, socially, and politically rich contemporary music that is defining and energizing an Indian youth culture on the precipice of a major identity shift. From Bollywood film songs and Indo-jazz to bhangra hip-hop and Indian death metal, the book situates Indian popular music within critical and historical frameworks, highlighting the unprecedented changes the region’s music has undergone in recent decades. This critical approach provides readers with a foundation for understanding an Indian musical culture that is as diverse and complex as the region itself. Included are case studies featuring song notations, first-person narratives, and interviews of well-known artists and emerging musicians alike. Illuminated are issues of great import in India today—as reflected through its music—addressing questions of a "national" aesthetic, the effects of Western music, and identity politics as they relate to class, caste, LGBTQ perspectives, and other marginalized voices. Presented through a global lens, Focus: Popular Music in Contemporary India contextualizes the dynamic popular music of India and its vast cultural impact.

Author : Sidney Wilfred Mintz,Sally Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : LCCN:85196875

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Focus--Caribbean by Sidney Wilfred Mintz,Sally Price Pdf

Author : Richard A. Young
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9042012498

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Music, Popular Culture, Identities by Richard A. Young Pdf

Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other identities, the essays touch upon popular traditions and contemporary forms from several different regions of the world: political engagement in Italian popular music; flamenco in Spain; the challenge of traditional music in Bulgaria; boerenrock and rap in Holland; Israeli extreme heavy metal; jazz and pop in South Africa, and musical hybridity and politics in Côte d'Ivoire. The collection includes essays about Latin America: on the Mexican corrido, the Caribbean, popular dance music in Cuba, and bossanova from Brazil. Communities of a cultural diaspora in North America are discussed in essays on Somali immigrant and refugee youth and Iranians in exile in the US. Grounded in cultural theory and a specialized knowledge of a particular popular musical practice, each author has written a critical study on the mix of music and identity in a particular social practice and context.

Author : Curwen Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : PSU:000049952254

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Barbadian Popular Music and the Politics of Caribbean Culture by Curwen Best Pdf

Author : Curwen Best
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810877498

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The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados by Curwen Best Pdf

During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island's music culture. Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. Readers will find especially compelling Best's analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil' Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression. This book will be of significant interest to scholars, students and all those curious about Caribbean popular culture, the popular music of Barbados, and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural development in a small island state.