Kevin K Birth

Bacchanalian Sentiments

Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad

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Produktbeschreibung

"Integrating a wealth of ethnographic observations of life in rural Trinidad, Kevin K. Birth offers a rich analysis of how performers and audiences actually experience and interpret music in Trinidad. He demonstrates how central musical experience is to the diverse and changing ways that Trinidadians understand various dimensions of their lives, such as kinship, friendship, community, gender, ethnicity, and national identity."--Stephen Stuempfle, author of "The Steelband Movement: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341659
• ISBN-10: 0822341654
• Artikelnr.: 23369675

Autorenporträt

Kevin K. Birth is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. He is the author of “Any Time Is Trinidad Time”: Social Meanings and Temporal Consciousness.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Note on Music References xiii
Introduction. Initial Connections 1
1. Governmental Organization of Spontaneity 43
2. Bacchnalian Counterpoints to the State 69
3. Parang: Christmas in Anamat 119
4. Bakrnal: An Example of Changing Opinions 149
5. "Chukaipan," "Lootala," and the Counterpoint of "Mix Up" 182
6. Concluding Relations 212
Appendix 227
References 229
Index 249