Bacchanalian Sentiments

Bacchanalian Sentiments
Author :
Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 276
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780822388746
ISBN-13 : 082238874X
Rating : 4/5 (74X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bacchanalian Sentiments by : Kevin K. Birth

Download or read book Bacchanalian Sentiments written by Kevin K. Birth and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island’s ethnic diversity. The annual Carnival, far and away the biggest event in Trinidad, is filled with soca and calypso music. Soca is a dance music derived from calypso, a music with African antecedents. In parang, a Venezuelan and Spanish derived folk music that dominates Trinidadian Christmas festivities, groups of singers and musicians progress from house to house, performing for their neighbors. Chutney is also an Indo-Caribbean music. In Bacchanalian Sentiments, Kevin K. Birth argues that these and other Trinidadian musical genres and traditions not only provide a soundtrack to daily life on the southern Caribbean island; they are central to the ways that Trinidadians experience and navigate their social lives and interpret political events. Birth draws on fieldwork he conducted in one of Trinidad’s ethnically diverse rural villages to explore the relationship between music and social and political consciousness on the island. He describes how Trinidadians use the affective power of music and the physiological experience of performance to express and work through issues related to identity, ethnicity, and politics. He looks at how the performers and audience members relate to different musical traditions. Turning explicitly to politics, Birth recounts how Trinidadians used music as a means of making sense of the attempted coup d’état in 1990 and the 1995 parliamentary election, which resulted in a tie between the two major political parties. Bacchanalian Sentiments is an innovative ethnographic analysis of the significance of music, and particular musical forms, in the everyday lives of rural Trinidadians.


Bacchanalian Sentiments Related Books

Bacchanalian Sentiments
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Kevin K. Birth
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-02 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Trinidad is known for its vibrant musical traditions, which reflect the island’s ethnic diversity. The annual Carnival, far and away the biggest event in Trin
Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Alejandra Bronfman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-22 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural studies, aff
Roy Cape
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Jocelyne Guilbault
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-07 - Publisher: Duke University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the i
Cultural Anthropology
Language: en
Pages: 802
Authors: Jack David Eller
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-10 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives is an exceptionally clear and readable introduction that helps students understand the application of anthropo
Innovations in Psychological Anthropology
Language: en
Pages: 137
Authors: Rebecca Lester
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-29 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume offers a bold and long-overdue intervention into the field of psychological anthropology. It asks how scholars might both constructively destabilize