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Starting From The Days Of Slavery And Following Through To The First Decades Of The Twentieth Century, This Book Traces The Evolution Of Carnival And Secular Black Music In Trinidad And The Links That Existed With Other Territories And Beyond. Calypso Emerged As The Pre-eminent Carnival Song From The End Of The Nineteenth Century And Its Association With The Festival Is Investigated, As Are The First Commercial Recordings By Trinidad Performers. These Featured Stringband Instrumentals, 'calipsos' And Stickfighting 'kalendas' (a Carnival Style Popular From The Last Quarter Of The Nineteenth Century). Great Use Is Made Of Contemporary Newspaper Reports, Colonial Documents, Travelogues, Oral History And Folklore, Providing An Authoritative Treatment Of A Fascinating Story In Popular Cultural History.--book Jacket. Background To West Indian Music -- 'pain Nous Ka Mangé': Music, Carnival And Events, 1783-1869 -- 'not A Cent To Buy Rice': Poverty, Revelry And Riots, 1870-1896 -- 'iron Duke In The Land': Banners, Bands And Music, 1897-1920 -- Creole Musical Traditions: Africa, The Caribbean And Beyond. John Cowley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

John Cowley; University of Bristol. Library. University of Westminster War and Culture Studies Archive

Publisher

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521653893

Subjects

Music, History, Folklore