Steel Drums And Steelbands

Author : Angela Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810883437

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Steel Drums and Steelbands by Angela Smith Pdf

Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the “accidental” invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum from an object of scorn and tool of violence to one of the most studied, performed, and appreciated musical instruments today. Smith explores the development of the modern steelband, from its roots in African slavery in early Trinidad to the vast array of experiments in technological innovation and to the current explosion of steelbands in American schools. The book offers insights directly from major contributors of the steelband movement with sections devoted exclusively to pioneers and innovators. Drawing on seven years of research, repeated trips to the birthplace of the steel drum, Trinidad, and interviews with steelband pioneers, Smith takes readers far beyond the sunny associations of the steel drum with island vacations, cruise ships, and multiple encores of “Yellow Bird.” Digging deep into Trinidad’s history—a tale of indigenous extermination and African slavery, of French settlement and Spanish and British colonialism before mid-century independence—Smith weaves an unforgettable narrative of talking drums, kalinda stick fights, tamboo bamboo bands, iron bands, calypso, Carnival, and the U. S. military. Together, all played major roles in the evolution of today’s steelband and in the panman’s journey from renegade to hero in the steelband’s move from the panyards of Trinidad’s poorest neighborhoods to the world’s most prestigious concert halls. The reader will discover how an instrument created by teenage boys, descendants of African slaves, became a world musical phenomena. Steel Drums and Steelbands is the ideal introduction to the steel drum, steelbands, and their history.

Author : Patricia Lakin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481478991

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Steel Drums by Patricia Lakin Pdf

Go behind the scenes and learn how craftsman Glenn Rowsey makes one-of-a-kind steel drums by hand with this nonfiction book that’s full of photographs and illustrations about his process. Tap-happy Glenn was inspired and taught by the Father of the Modern Steel Drum, Ellie Mannette. This book gives a step-by-step glimpse at Glenn’s creative process for making and tuning pans—from start to finish—with love and care. It also features a timeline and history detailing how the passion of generations of determined people from Trinidad gave birth to this percussion instrument. Charts, infographics, and bold photographs will inspire kids to make their own objects by hand.

Author : Stephen Stuempfle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0812233298

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The Steelband Movement by Stephen Stuempfle Pdf

The Steelband Movement examines the dramatic transformation of pan from a Carnival street music into a national art and symbol in Trinidad and Tobago. By focusing on pan as a cultural process, Stephen Stuempfle demonstrates how the struggles and achievements of the steelband movement parallel the problems and successes of building a nation. Stuempfle explores the history of the steelband from its emergence around 1940 as an assemblage of diverse metal containers to today's immense orchestra of high-precision instruments with bell-like tones. Drawing on interviews with different generations of pan musicians (including the earliest), a wide array of archival material, and field observations, the author traces the growth of the movement in the context of the grass-roots uprisings of the 1930s and 1940s, the American presence in Trinidad in World War II, the nationalist movement of the postwar period, the aftermath of independence from Britain in 1962, the Black Power protests and the oil boom of the 1970s, and the recession of recent years. The Steelband Movement suggests that the history of pan has involved a series of negotiations between different ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, and social organizations, all of which have attempted to define and use the music according to their own values and interests. This drama provides a window into the ways in which Trinidadians have constructed various visions of a national identity.

Author : George Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173002190182

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Forty Years in the Steelbands, 1939-1979 by George Goddard Pdf

Author : Andrew R. Martin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496812414

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Steelpan Ambassadors by Andrew R. Martin Pdf

"Maybe you won't like steel band. It's possible. But it's been said that the Pied Piper had a steel band helping him on his famous visit to Hamelin." When the US Navy distributed this press release, anxieties and tensions of the impending Cold War felt palpable. As President Eisenhower cast his gaze towards Russia, the American people cast their ears to the Atlantic South, infatuated with the international currents of Caribbean music. Today, steelbands have become a global phenomenon; yet, in 1957 the exotic sound and the unique image of the US Navy Steel Band was one-of-a-kind. Could calypso doom rock "n" roll? Band founder Admiral Daniel V. Gallery thought so and envisioned his steelband knocking "rock "n" roll and Elvis Presley into the ash can." From 1957 until their disbandment in 1999, the US Navy Steel Band performed over 20,000 concerts worldwide. In 1973, the band officially moved headquarters from Puerto Rico to New Orleans and found the city and annual Mardi Gras tradition an apt musical and cultural fit. The band brought a significant piece of Caribbean artistic capital--calypso and steelband music--to the American mainstream. Its impact on the growth and development of steelpan music in America is enormous. Steelpan Ambassadors uncovers the lost history of the US Navy Steel Band and provides an in-depth study of its role in the development of the US military's public relations, its promotion of goodwill, its recruitment efforts after the Korean and Vietnam Wars, its musical and technological innovations, and its percussive propulsion of the American fascination with Latin and Caribbean music over the past century.

Author : Shannon Dudley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195175479

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Music from Behind the Bridge by Shannon Dudley Pdf

'Music from behind the Bridge' tells the story of the steelband a symbol of Trinidadian culture, from the point of view of musicians who overcame disadvantages of poverty and prejudice with their extraordinary ambition.

Author : Geoff Nicholls,Jeff Nicholls
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476854373

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The Drum Book by Geoff Nicholls,Jeff Nicholls Pdf

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Author : Harry Best
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0615272436

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Pan Steel Drums Made Easy by Harry Best Pdf

Every new student of the Cycle of Fifths lead steel drum /pan should begin with this simple and insightful instruction book. The Lead steel drum /pan is completely de-mystified in four easy sessions. Twelve key exercises and drills with guided sticking will help you gain full facility around the instrument in the shortest possible time. Begin the fun of playing tunes immediately!

Author : Ray Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190656843

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Jump Up! by Ray Allen Pdf

Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace and transformation of select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its Island homeland and its bourgeoning New York migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music, migration, and identity head on, exploring the complex cycling of musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers, musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between New York's diasporic communities and the Caribbean.

Author : W. Austin Simmonds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Percussion instruments
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023384584

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Pan, the Story of the Steel Band by W. Austin Simmonds Pdf

Author : Othello Molineaux
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0897249739

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Beginning Steel Drum by Othello Molineaux Pdf

A complete method for learning to play lead steel drum. World-renowned steel drum artist Othello Molineaux has developed a concise method for the novice or experienced musician. Perfect for individual study or classroom use, this method comes complete with an accompaniment CD and a full-size practice poster.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Calypso (Music)
ISBN : 9766510040

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The Illustrated Story of Pan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Anthony Achong
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781483634852

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Secrets of the Steelpan by Dr. Anthony Achong Pdf

This book describes a truly remarkable musical instrument „o the Steelpan (Pan) „o a melodic percussion instrument that produces tones of immense beauty. This instrument is the National Instrument of the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The concepts, the ideas, the theories, the physics and the mathematics contained in this book are the answers to the question the author asked himself as a little boy peering over the face of a ping pong steelpan, ¡¥how does it work?¡¦ Revealed, are the subtleties and secrets of the instrument¡¦s operation, its laws, its construction and details of its tuning. Contained herein is the information sought by pan musicians, pan makers, panists, pan researchers and ¡¥pan lovers¡¦ „o nothing is left out. The rigor of the analytical methods of this book matches, in depth and intensity, the expert craftsmanship of the Master Pan Maker and Tuner. There is a unifying force within this book that combines the stick-note impacts to the panist¡¦s creativity in his production of musical tones. This book doesn¡¦t dodge the difficult questions; it ends with a chapter on the exotic non-musical features of the steelpan.

Author : John H. Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317747680

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Encyclopedia of Percussion by John H. Beck Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Percussion is an extensive guide to percussion instruments, organized for research as well as general knowledge. Focusing on idiophones and membranophones, it covers in detail both Western and non-Western percussive instruments. These include not only instruments whose usual sound is produced percussively (like snare drums and triangles), but those whose usual sound is produced concussively (like castanets and claves) or by friction (like the cuíca and the lion’s roar). The expertise of contributors have been used to produce a wide-ranging list of percussion topics. The volume includes: (1) an alphabetical listing of percussion instruments and terms from around the world; (2) an extensive section of illustrations of percussion instruments; (3) thirty-five articles covering topics from Basel drumming to the xylophone; (4) a list of percussion symbols; (5) a table of percussion instruments and terms in English, French, German, and Italian; and (6) an updated section of published writings on methods for percussion.

Author : Andrew Martin,Ray Funk,Jeannine Remy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609092375

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Steelpan in Education by Andrew Martin,Ray Funk,Jeannine Remy Pdf

Founded by Al O'Connor in 1973, the steelband program at Northern Illinois University was the first of its kind in the United States. Thanks to the talent and dedication of O'Connor, Cliff Alexis, Liam Teague, Yuko Asada, and a plethora of NIU students and staff members, the program has flourished into one of the most important in the world. Having welcomed a variety of distinguished guest artists and traveled to perform in locales around the US and in Taiwan, Trinidad, and South Korea, the NIU Steelband has achieved international acclaim as a successful and unique university world music program. This fascinating history of the NIU Steelband traces the evolution of the program and engages with broader issues relating to the development of steelband and world music ensembles in the American university system. In addition to investigating its past, Steelpan in Education looks to the future of the NIU Steelband, exploring how it attracts and trains new generations of elite musicians who continue to push the boundaries of the steelpan. This study will appeal to musicians, music educators, ethnomusicologists, and fans of the NIU Steelband.