Caribbean Currents by Peter Manuel

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Caribbean Currents by Peter Manuel

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Zusammenfassung

From the well-known genres salsa, merengue, reggae, calypso, and bachata to localized forms like chutney and kaseko, this book surveys Caribbean music's prodigious diversity and colorful history. It provides an overview of Caribbean music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals and dance halls, and its fans.

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Caribbean Currents by Peter Manuel

A fascinating wide-ranging survey of Carribean music forms

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"[T]he many helpful discographies throughout the book--not to mention the cool photographs!--contribute to making this an essential text on some of the world's most irrepressible rhythms" --Booklist "Professor Manuel is a superb ethnomusicologist with several important books to his credit. He is well versed in the intricacies of hybrid music forms on the Caribbean... This is an excellent summary volume on Caribbean music." --Raul Fernandez, Professor of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine "This excellent book encompasses Caribbean music in all its diversity and complexity. Manuel shows a great deal of contemporary sensibility and sensitivity in covering this fertile region of world music--he is able to relate the many musical traditions present in the region to those that are present in world music today." --Juan Flores, Director, Centro de Estudio Puertoriquenos, City University of New York
Manuel, Peter: - Peter Manuel is assistant professor in the Department of Art, Music, and Philosophy at John Jay College (City University of New York). His other publications include Popular Musics of the Non-Western World, Thumri in Historical and Stylistic Perspectives, and Essays on Cuban Music.
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ISBN 13 9781566393393
ISBN 10 1566393396
Titel Caribbean Currents
Autor Peter Manuel
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Temple University Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr 1995-08-10
Seitenanzahl 288
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