Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums : Retention and Invention into Indo-Caribbean Music /

"In this study, Peter Manuel discusses Indo-Caribbean music that uses a set of neotraditional music genres to explore how the distinctive nature of the diaspora and its relation to the ancestral homeland have conditioned the trajectories of its music culture. Focusing particularly on tassa drum...

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Autor principal: Manuel, Peter, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Folk music.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology.
Folk music > Caribbean Area > History and criticism.
Bhojpuri (Indic people) > Caribbean Area > Music > History and criticism.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Global Perspectives on the Indo-Caribbean Bhojpuri Diaspora and Its Music
  • 2. The Trajectories of Transplants: Singing Alha, Birha, and the Ramayan in the Indic Caribbean
  • 3. Chowtal and the Dantal: Finding Fertile Soil in the New Homelands
  • 4. Bhojpuri Diasporic Music and the Encounter with India
  • 5. Tassa Drumming from India to the Caribbean and Beyond
  • 6. Concluding Perspectives
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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