Barbadian Popular Music And The Politics Of Caribbean Culture
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Barbadian Popular Music And The Politics Of Caribbean Culture
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Author : Curwen Best
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Barbadian Popular Music And The Politics Of Caribbean Culture written by Curwen Best and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Music categories.
The Popular Music And Entertainment Culture Of Barbados
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Author : Curwen Best
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2012
The Popular Music And Entertainment Culture Of Barbados written by Curwen Best and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island's music culture. Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. Readers will find especially compelling Best's analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil' Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression. This book will be of significant interest to scholars, students and all those curious about Caribbean popular culture, the popular music of Barbados, and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural development in a small island state.
Culture The Cutting Edge
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Author : Curwen Best
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Culture The Cutting Edge written by Curwen Best and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The anglophone Caribbean has long been celebrated and known for its vibrant and innovative music. Reggae, dancehall, calypso, soca, gospel and ringbang have flourished within the Caribbean and have exploded on the worldwide stage. Somewhat surprisingly, many facets of this contribution have not been analysed or discussed by academic writing. This work deliberately moves away from the customary exclusive focus on Trinidad and Jamaica and broadens the discourse to represent the wider region. It addresses such topics as the status of Caribbean gospel; the birth of new musical styles in the Eastern Caribbean; cultural misrepresentation in Caribbean music videos; the representation of Aids in Caribbean music; and the impact of the actual music technology utilized by Caribbean musicians since the 1980s.
Tuk Music Tradition In Barbados
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Author : Sharon Meredith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Tuk Music Tradition In Barbados written by Sharon Meredith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Music categories.
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life, although most of the population are descended from enslaved Africans taken to Barbados to work on the sugar plantations. After independence, an official desire to promulgate the country’s African heritage led to the revival and recontextualisation of cultural traditions. Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.
In Plenty And In Time Of Need
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Author : Lia T. Bascomb
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2019-12-13
In Plenty And In Time Of Need written by Lia T. Bascomb and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-13 with Art categories.
In Plenty and in Time of Need uses music and performance as sites of analysis for the competing ideals and realities of Barbadian national culture. The book demonstrates complex relations between national, gendered, and sexual identities in Barbados, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage.
Roots To Popular Culture
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Author : Curwen Best
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Roots To Popular Culture written by Curwen Best and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
The Politics Of Caribbean Cyberculture
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Author : C. Best
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-01-21
The Politics Of Caribbean Cyberculture written by C. Best and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-21 with Social Science categories.
This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines.
Focus Music Of The Caribbean
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Author : Sydney Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-22
Focus Music Of The Caribbean written by Sydney Hutchinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-22 with Music categories.
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—those of colonialism and neocolonialism, race and nationalism, marginalization and globalization—and to explore that history’s continuing impact on the lives, cultures, musics, and dance of modern-day people in the Caribbean and beyond. In three parts, the text presents an embodied understanding of the sounds, rhythms, and movements that exemplify the history, culture, and politics of Caribbean music: I. Caribbean Music and Caribbean History establishes a framework for thinking about Caribbean musical history and the roles race and migration play II. Music and Dance in Caribbean Societies considers how contrasting forms of dance music reconcile competing ideas about Caribbean identities past and present III. Focusing In: The Social Lives of Musical Instruments in Merengue Típico explores the music of the Dominican Cibao region through a focus of the genre’s dominant musical instruments Accessible to all students regardless of musical background, Focus: Music of the Caribbean is bolstered by web resources, including more than sixty detailed listening guides and accompanying playlists, vocabulary lists, and student quizzes. Discussion questions and activities for each chapter are featured in the text.
Music Power And Politics
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Author : Annie J. Randall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-12-22
Music Power And Politics written by Annie J. Randall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-22 with Music categories.
Essays by scholars from around the world explore the means by which music's long-acknowledged potential to persuade, seduce, indoctrinate, rouse, incite, or even silence listeners has been used to advance agendas of power and protest.
Caribbean Popular Culture
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Author : Yanique Hume
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Caribbean Popular Culture written by Yanique Hume and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Art categories.
Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance examines the Caribbean popular - an idea that has been an important and contested terrain for exploring the dynamic and oftentimes subversive cultural expressions of the region. The Caribbean popular arts, whether embodied in the hybrid musical genres or vernacular performance and festival traditions, have historically provided a space for social and political critique, the performance of visibility and also articulations of a temporal emancipatory ethos with its attendant acquisition of power and status. Beyond the spaces of their local/regional enactments and the social realities out of which they emerged and continue to circulate, Caribbean popular culture has over time contributed to contemporary understandings of global and diasporic cultures and, at the same time, the dynamics of inter-cultural encounters. The terrain of the popular has been a generative site for the study of Caribbean societies, and has produced enduring theoretical postulations that have been pivotal to the shaping of the intellectual production on the Caribbean. It is also the most powerful force that socializes contemporary Caribbean citizens into an understanding of their identities, the limits of their citizenship, and the meaning of their worlds.