Curwen Best

The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados

Pathways to Digital Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 501g
• ISBN-13: 9780810877498
• ISBN-10: 081087749X
• Artikelnr.: 34444984

Autorenporträt

Curwen Best is professor of Popular Culture, Literary, and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados. He is Head of the Department of Language Linguistics and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Tuk Chapter 2 Bridges and Tracks Chapter 3
Root Notes and Departures Chapter 4 Staying and Crossing Over Chapter 5 Low
Frequencies Chapter 6 Criticism. Culture Chapter 7 The New Folk. Breaking
with the Past Chapter 8 The Culture Industry. Your Party or Mine? Chapter 9
The Digital Nation Chapter 10 Music Technology. Hard and Soft Options
Bibliography