The steelband movement : the forging of a national art in Trinidad and Tobago / Stephen Stuempfle.

By:

Stuempfle, Stephen

Publication details: Barbados : Press University of the West Indies, 1995.Description: xx, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9766400261
9789766400262

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

784.6/8 20

LOC classification:

ML3486.T7 S78 1995b

Other classification:

24.65
73.62

Summary: "Tracing the steelband from the Trinidadian tamboo bamboo band, this chronicle begins in the 1930s with young performers of African descent. In the 1940s, civic leaders gave encouragement, and by independence from Britain in 1962, the steelband had become a national symbol. Details the steelband repertoire, ranging from calypsos to favored European selections"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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Includes discography (pages 237-238) , bibliographical references (p. 239-282) and index.

"Tracing the steelband from the Trinidadian tamboo bamboo band, this chronicle begins in the 1930s with young performers of African descent. In the 1940s, civic leaders gave encouragement, and by independence from Britain in 1962, the steelband had become a national symbol. Details the steelband repertoire, ranging from calypsos to favored European selections"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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