Tales, tunes, and tassa drums : retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music /

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"Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre. A uniquely Indo-Trinidadian form, tassa drumming invites exploration of how the distincti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Manuel, Peter, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Bhojpuri (Indic people) > Caribbean Area > Music > History and criticism.
Folk music > Caribbean Area > History and criticism.
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General.
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.
Folk music.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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