An edition of Tales, tunes, and tassa drums (2015)

Tales, tunes, and tassa drums

retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music

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Tales, tunes, and tassa drums
Peter Manuel, Peter Manuel
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An edition of Tales, tunes, and tassa drums (2015)

Tales, tunes, and tassa drums

retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music

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Manuel traces the roots of neotraditional Indo-Caribbean music genres to North India and explores the ways in which these genres can be seen variously to represent survivals, departures, or innovative elaborations of transplanted genres.

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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
268

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Subjects

Folk music, Bhojpuri (Indic people), Music, East Indian diaspora, History and criticism, Folk music, history and criticism, Music, caribbean, MUSIC / Ethnomusicology, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia

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Tales, tunes, and tassa drums: retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music
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Table of Contents

Itroduction. Global perspectives on the Indo-Caribbean Bhojpuri diaspora and its music
The trajectories of transplants : singing Ālhā, Birha, and the Ramayan in the Indic Caribbean
Chowtal and the Dantāl : finding fertile soil in the new homelands
Bhojpuri diasporic music and the encounter with India
Tassa drumming from India to the Caribbean and beyond
Concluding perspectives.

Edition Notes

"Glossary": pages 251-255.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.

Copyright Date
2015

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Dewey Decimal Class
781.62/91454072983
Library of Congress
ML3565 .M373 2015, ML3565.M373 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 268 pages
Number of pages
268

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OL27181696M
ISBN 10
0252038819
ISBN 13
9780252038815
LCCN
2014016323
OCLC/WorldCat
879329670

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