ISBN:
9781496823434
,
9781496807533
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 219 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First printing
Series Statement:
Caribbean studies series
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Keywords:
Afroamerikanische Musik
;
Frau
;
Trinidad
;
Women musicians / Trinidad and Tobago
;
Popular music / History and criticism / Trinidad and Tobago
;
Trinidad
;
Frau
;
Afroamerikanische Musik
Abstract:
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Trinidad and Tobago, this work demonstrates how the increased access and agency of women through folk and popular musical expressions has improved inter-gender relations and representation of gender in this nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Woman Is Boss: Music and Gender in Trinidad's Cultural History -- 2 Woman Rising: Women Find Their Place in Calypso Music -- 3 From Calypso Queen to Calypso Monarch -- 4 Carnival Is Woman: Party Music and the Soca Diva -- 5 Pan Rising: Women and the Steelband Movement -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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