The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Curwen Best
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Description for The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Hardcover. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; 3JJP; 3JMC; AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810877498
SKU
V9780810877498
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Ref
99-15
About Curwen Best
Curwen Best is professor of Popular Culture, Literary, and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados. He is Head of the Department of Language Linguistics and Literature.
Reviews for The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Professor Best's research skillfully weaves the paradoxes of resistance and subjection as the warf and weft of a musical tapestry begun in the slavery period, but undergoing renovation in the digital era. . . .Pathways also offers a valuable and long overdue survey of twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. . . .Historians and scholars will certainly appreciate the enormous ... Read more