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Item Details
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MUSIC OF HINDI TRINIDAD
SONGS FROM THE INDIAN DIASPORA |
| By: |
Helen Myers |
| Format: |
Mixed media product |
| List price:
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£92.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226554511 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226554518 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 1999 |
| Series: |
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Description: |
An account of the history and cultural significance of Hindu music in Trinidad. It explores the music's symbolic, aesthetic and psychological aspects, and asks how the music has contributed to the formation of identity of the East Indian Hindu origins of much of the Caribbean population. |
| Synopsis: |
Like many other small towns in Trinidad, Felicity is populated almost entirely by East Indians. In their Caribbean exile, the residents of Felicity have created and recreated the music of their Hindu ancestors. This volume is an account of the history and cultural significance of Hindu music that explores its symbolic, aesthetic, and psychological aspects while asking the larger question of how this music has contributed to the formation of identity in the midst of their great diaspora. Myers details the musical repertory of Felicity, which is based largely on north Indian genres including the traditional Bhojpuri folk songs and drumming styles brought by the first indentured laborers in 1845. In her engaging exploration of the fate of Indian classical music and new popular styles such as Hindi calypso, soca, and chutney, she even finds herself at the ancestral home of Trinidadian V. S. Naipaul in India. |
| Illustrations: |
15 halftones, 3 maps, 6 line drawings, 9 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award: Excellence in |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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