Tales, tunes, and tassa drums
Subtitle: retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music
By: Peter Manuel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780252038815
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Folk music; Bhojpuri (Indic people); Music; East Indian diaspora; History and criticism
Description: Manuel traces the roots of neotraditional Indo-Caribbean music genres to North India and explores the ways in which these genres can be seen variously to represent survivals, departures, or innovative elaborations of transplanted genres.
Notes: "Glossary": pages 251-255.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Itroduction. Global perspectives on the Indo-Caribbean Bhojpuri diaspora and its music; title: The trajectories of transplants : singing Ālhā, Birha, and the Ramayan in the Indic Caribbean; title: Chowtal and the Dantāl : finding fertile soil in the new homelands; title: Bhojpuri diasporic music and the encounter with India; title: Tassa drumming from India to the Caribbean and beyond; title: Concluding perspectives.