Focus: Music of the Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9781138094512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 270 str.

Sydney Hutchinson

Opis

Focus: Music of the Caribbean presents the most important issues of Caribbean musical history and current practice, discussing thought-provoking questions in a student-friendly fashion. It uses current ethnomusicological research on Caribbean music to tell the stories of Caribbean history.

Spis treści

PART I: Caribbean Music and Caribbean History / 1. Three Cultures / 2. The First Caribbeans / 3. European Music and Caribbean Traditions / 4. African Musical Legacies / PART II: Music and Dance in Caribbean Societies: An Intersectional View of Embodied Culture / 5. Sacred Music, Dance, and Race: Dominican Palos and Cuban Santería / 6. Dance Music, Gender, and Marginality: Dominican Bachata and Jamaican Dancehall / 7. Dance Music, Race, and Nation: A Tale of Many Merengues / PART III: Focusing In: The Social Lives of Musical Instruments in Merengue Típico / 8. Accordion / 9. Güira / 10. Tambora / 11. Epilogue

O autorze

Sydney Hutchinson is Associate Professor of Music History and Cultures at Syracuse University.