Focus: Music of the Caribbean Paperback / softback
by Sydney Hutchinson
Part of the Focus on World Music Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 presentIII.
Focusing In: The Social Lives of Musical Instruments in Merengue Tipico 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 42 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/11/2019
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- ISBN:9781138094512
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 17 Line drawings, black and white; 42 Halftones, black and whi
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:01/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138094512
