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Roy Cape : a life on the calypso and soca bandstand / Jocelyne Guilbault and Roy Cape.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guilbault, Jocelyne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cape, Roy, 1942-.
- Cape, Roy.
- Calypso musicians--Trinidad and Tobago--Biography.
- Calypso musicians.
- Saxophonists--Trinidad and Tobago--Biography.
- Saxophonists.
- Band musicians--Trinidad and Tobago--Biography.
- Band musicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, <I>Roy Cape</I> is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy''s voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.</div>
- Contents:
- For the love of music : up from the panyards and at the orphanage
- Working as a bandsman
- Listening to Roy sounding
- Leading the band
- Remembering with pictures
- Working with Roy : musicians and friends speak
- Circulation: summarizing a career
- Afterword: writing voices.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357742
- 0822357747
- 9780822376163
- 0822376164
- OCLC:
- 873034935
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