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Culture @ the cutting edge : tracking Caribbean popular music / Curwen Best.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Best, Curwen, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Caribbean Area--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Music and technology.
- Electronic music.
- Calypso (Music)--Caribbean Area--History and criticism.
- Calypso (Music).
- Gospel music--Caribbean Area--History and criticism.
- Gospel music.
- Sex in music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Culture at the cutting edge
- Place of Publication:
- Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Somewhat surprisingly, many facets of this contribution have not been analysed or discussed by academic writing. 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 such topics 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 since the 1980s.
- Contents:
- Reading culture as multi-tracked
- Sounding Calypso's muted tracks, past and present : Barbados + St. Lucia
- Towards a Caribbean gospel aesthetic
- Discourses on AIDS (+ sex) in Caribbean music
- Finding the new hardcore in Caribbean music
- Music video to web streaming : cultural ventriloquism @ the leading edge
- The "big technology" question.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes discography.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4356-2838-1
- OCLC:
- 192133283
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