The Steelband Movement
Subtitle: The Forging of a National Art in Trinidad and Tobago
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: February 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780812233292
Subjects: Folk music; Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles; Social groups & communities; Popular Music; Music; Music/Songbooks; Trinidad & Tobago; Steel bands (Music); Musical Instruments - General; History and criticism; Ethnic; History; 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.