The Big Drum Dance of Carriacou
Author | : Annette Claire Macdonald |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Annette Claire Macdonald |
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Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1967 |
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Author | : Lorna McDaniel |
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Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780813021935 |
The Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 120 of the song texts & dances that call & entertain the ancestors who are central to Carriacou religious experience. Performed since the early 1700s, the Big Drum dance reveals an African-Caribbean religion at its inception as practiced by enslaved people & in its current expression as a vital, living aspect of Carriacou society. No other Caribbean ritual like it still exists. The author maintains that the nine coded rhythms of the boula drums hold the history of the nine African "nations" that inhabited early Carriacou, keeping alive their memories of Africa & of family lineage. In discussion of the spiritual bases of the Yoruba dances of Grenada, Trinidad, Cuba, & Jamaica, the author illustrates the connection between the liturgical symbols of danced religions & the ancient myth of "The Flying Africans." The author concludes with an analysis of a single calypso that memorializes the 1983 invasion of Grenada & illustrates the history-keeping function of the calypso & Big Drum. She uncovers a structural relationship between ancient praisesongs & modern political songs & suggests the continuing impact of music on the memory of the Caribbean people.
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Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Calypso (Music) |
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Author | : Donald Routledge Hill |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Frank Gillis |
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Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1975* |
Genre | : Drum |
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Author | : Christine David |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Carriacou Island |
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Author | : Lorna McDaniel |
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Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 19?? |
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Author | : Rebecca S. Miller |
Publisher | : Wesleyan |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
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A Caribbean music festival as a window on social change Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S. Miller examines the varying impact that factors such as cultural ambivalence, globalization, and technology have had on the performance of Carriacou's folk and traditional music and dance forms. Using historical sources and current ethnography, she illuminates the enduring significance of the Parang Festival to illustrate the social and political history of Carriacou as well as this culture's contemporary process of modernization. The book includes a web link allowing the reader to listen to a variety of musical examples.
Author | : Lorna McDaniel |
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Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 19?? |
Genre | : Carriacou (Grenada) |
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Author | : Chris Searle |
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Carriacou |
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