Roy Cape : a life on the calypso and soca bandstand /

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Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy''s voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Guilbault, Jocelyne (Author), Cape, Roy, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Cape, Roy, > 1942-
Calypso musicians > Trinidad and Tobago > Biography.
Saxophonists > Trinidad and Tobago > Biography.
Band musicians > Trinidad and Tobago > Biography.
Musiciens de calypso > Trinité-et-Tobago > Biographies.
Saxophonistes > Trinité-et-Tobago > Biographies.
Musiciens d'harmonie > Trinité-et-Tobago > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Band musicians
Calypso musicians
Saxophonists
Trinidad and Tobago
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • For the love of music : up from the panyards and at the orphanage
  • Working as a bandsman
  • Listening to Roy sounding
  • Leading the band
  • Remembering with pictures
  • Working with Roy : musicians and friends speak
  • Circulation: summarizing a career
  • Afterword: writing voices.

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