Music of Hindu Trinidad
Subtitle: Songs from the India Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Edition: Har/Com edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9780226554518
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Folk music; Music; Music/Songbooks; Trinidad & Tobago; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnomusicology; Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; East Indians; Felicity; History and criticism; India; Trinidad and Tobago
First sentence: The cultures of the West Indies have been the object of intensive study since World War II by anthropologists, political scientists, and linguists, who have regarded these highly stratified small-scale societies as virtual laboratories for social science research.