Stuempfle, Stephen.

The steelband movement : the forging of a national art in Trinidad and Tobago / Stephen Stuempfle. - Barbados : Press University of the West Indies, 1995. - xx, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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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Steel bands (Music)--History.--Trinidad and Tobago
Popular music--History and criticism.--Trinidad and Tobago
Popular music.
Steel bands (Music)
Culturele antropologie.
Steelbands.
Nationale identiteit.


Trinidad and Tobago.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

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