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Munro Hope - What She Go Do Women In Afro - Trinidadian Music - Paperback
Munro Hope - What She Go Do Women In Afro - Trinidadian Music - Paperback
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Description: In the 1990s expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance of calypso and soca as well as the musical development of the steel pan art form. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Trinidad and Tobago What She Go Do demonstrates how the increased access and agency of women through folk and popular musical expressions has improved intergender relations and representation of gender in this nation. This is the first study to integrate all of the popular music expressions associated with Carnival - - calypso soca and steelband music - - within a single volume. The book includes interviews with popular musicians and detailed observation of musical performances rehearsals and recording sessions as well as analysis of reception and use of popular music through informal exchanges with audiences. The popular music of the Caribbean contains elaborate forms of social commentary that allows singers to address various sociopolitical problems including those that directly affect the lives of women. In general the cultural environment of Trinidad and Tobago has made women more visible and audible than any previous time in its history. This book examines how these circumstances came to be and what it means for the future development of music in the region.
Title: What She Go Do Women In Afro - Trinidadian Music
Author(s): Munro Hope
Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
Barcode: 9781496823434
Pages: 230 Pages, 12 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 5/20/2019
Series: Caribbean Studies Series
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: In the 1990s expressive culture in the Caribbean was becoming noticeably more feminine. At the annual Carnival of Trinidad and Tobago thousands of female masqueraders dominated the street festival on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. Women had become significant contributors to the performance of calypso and soca as well as the musical development of the steel pan art form. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Trinidad and Tobago What She Go Do demonstrates how the increased access and agency of women through folk and popular musical expressions has improved intergender relations and representation of gender in this nation. This is the first study to integrate all of the popular music expressions associated with Carnival - - calypso soca and steelband music - - within a single volume. The book includes interviews with popular musicians and detailed observation of musical performances rehearsals and recording sessions as well as analysis of reception and use of popular music through informal exchanges with audiences. The popular music of the Caribbean contains elaborate forms of social commentary that allows singers to address various sociopolitical problems including those that directly affect the lives of women. In general the cultural environment of Trinidad and Tobago has made women more visible and audible than any previous time in its history. This book examines how these circumstances came to be and what it means for the future development of music in the region.
Title: What She Go Do Women In Afro - Trinidadian Music
Author(s): Munro Hope
Publisher: University Press Of Mississippi
Barcode: 9781496823434
Pages: 230 Pages, 12 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 5/20/2019
Series: Caribbean Studies Series
Category: Gender Studies: Women
