Stolen Time : Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze /

In 1956 Harry Belafonte's Calypso became the first LP to sell more than a million copies. For a few fleeting months, calypso music was the top-selling genre in the US-it even threatened to supplant rock and roll. Stolen Time provides a vivid cultural history of this moment and outlines a new fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vogel, Shane (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Temas:
Calypso (Music) > History.
Calypso musicians.
Musicians, Black > Caribbean, English-speaking.
Popular music > Caribbean, English-speaking.
Popular music > United States > 1951-1960.
Popular music-United States-1951-1960-History and criticism.
HISTORY / General.
African American history.
Calypso.
Harry Belafonte.
United States.
authenticity.
cultural appropriation.
fad.
mass culture.
performance.
race.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. This and That, or, Swiped Calypsos
  • ONE. Stolen Time: The Ontology of Black Fad Performance
  • TWO. The Calypso Program: Technology, Performance, Cinema
  • THREE. Carnivalizing Jazz: Duke Ellington's Calypso Theater and the Diasporic Instant
  • FOUR. Surfacing the Caribbean: Black Broadway and Mock Transnational Performance
  • FIVE. Working against the Music: Geoffrey Holder's Elsewhen
  • CONCLUSION. Don't Stop the Carnival
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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