Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music - Softcover

Best, Curwen

 
9789766401245: Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9766401241 ISBN 13: 9789766401245
Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 2005

Synopsis

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. 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 several topics which remain under-discussed in Caribbean music, such 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 in the last twenty years.

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About the Author

Curwen Best is Lecturer, University of the West Indies, Barbados. He is the author of Barbadian Popular Music and Roots to Popular Culture.

Review

"Significant...because of its attempt to foreground technology as an agent of cultural transformation in the Caribbean music industry. Using the metaphor of 'multi-tracking,' the author argues for the deconstruction of musical texts to reveal their technical and ideological constituents. The analysis of the music video as a hybrid cultural text worthy of academic attention is a particularly welcome contribution to the body of scholarship on Caribbean popular music."-Carolyn Cooper

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Publisher
University Press of the West Indies
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9766401241
ISBN 13 
9789766401245
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
268