The popular music and entertainment culture of Barbados : pathways to digital culture / Curwen Best.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Best, Curwen, author.

Series:

Pathways to digital culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Caribbean Area.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados surveys 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.

Contents:

Tuk

Bridges and tracks

Root notes and departures

Staying and crossing over

Low frequencies

Criticism : culture

The new folk : breaking with the past

The culture industry : your party or mine?

The digital nation

Music technology : hard and soft options.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31728-9

979-88-8183-793-8

1-280-66991-8

9786613646842

0-8108-7750-3

OCLC:

845243728