Caribbean Currents : Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae

Manuel, Peter; Bilby, Kenneth (CON); Largey, Michael (CON)

ISBN 10: 1899365079 / ISBN 13: 9781899365074

Published by Temple University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caribbean Currents : Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899365079
• ISBN 13: 9781899365074
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers. One group contains the music lover who has taken a fancy to some kind of Caribbean music and would like to know more about the background of that style and about the region's music as a whole. Another set includes the student of Caribbean society or of pan-American society in general, who seeks an introduction to this most dynamic aspect of the hemisphere's culture.

From the Publisher

A fascinating wide-ranging survey of Carribean music forms