Folk song and folk life in Charlotteville
Subtitle: (Aspects of village life as dynamics of acculturation in a Tobago folk song tradition
By: by J.D. Elder
Contributors: International Folk Music Council. Congress; International Folk Music Council
Publisher: [J.D. Elder]
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: English Folk songs; Folk music; History and criticism; Folk songs; Social life and customs
Notes: Paper prepared for twenty-first conference of the International Folk Music Council, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, August 27 27 to September 3, 1971.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings - Migrant musicians - Culture clash - Singers from the Grenadines - Demographic mix-up - Acculturation - Song categories and local spirituals - Drum dance music - Work songs - Stylistic mixture - Rites of passage music - Congo music - Types of music makers - Conflict over church music - Children's music - Women's banter songs - Music for magic - Music in life and death - Music and social conflicts - Cultural continuities and cultural changes - Major genres of   Charlotteville traditional music - Conclusion