The Steelband Movement
Subtitle: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 19, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780812215656
Subjects: Folk music; Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles; Social groups & communities; Musical Instruments - General; History and criticism; Music/Songbooks; Music; Trinidad & Tobago; Popular music; Ethnic; History & Criticism - General; Music / Ethnic; Music-History & Criticism - General; History; Steel bands (Music); Trinidad and Tobago
First sentence: The creators of the steelband in the 1930s and 1940s drew on musical and festive traditions that had been developing in Trinidad for well over a century.