Carriacou string band serenade
Subtitle: performing identity in the eastern Caribbean
By: Rebecca S. Miller.
Series: Music/culture
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780819568588
Subjects: Music -- Social aspects -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island; Music -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island -- History and criticism; Carriacou Island (Grenada) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing Carriacou and the Parang Festival; title: "Forward ever, backward never!" : the People's Revolutionary Government and the makings of the Parang Festival; title: Cultural ambivalence : the case of Carriacou quadrille; title: Friday night : the Hosannah band competition; title: Break-aways, lavways, calypso, and more : an ethnography and social history of Carriacou string band music; title: Melée! : the Sunday evening string band competition; title: "Weself as one people" : local identity/regional belonging.