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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808351203321

Autore

Best Curwen <1965->

Titolo

Culture @ the cutting edge : tracking Caribbean popular music / / Curwen Best

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jamaica : , : University of the West Indies Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-4356-2838-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Classificazione

24.65

Disciplina

781.6/4/09729

Soggetti

Popular music - Caribbean Area - History and criticism

Music and technology

Electronic music

Calypso (Music) - Caribbean Area - History and criticism

Gospel music - Caribbean Area - History and criticism

Sex in music

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes discography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reading culture as multi-tracked -- Sounding Calypso's muted tracks, past and present : Barbados + St. Lucia -- Towards a Caribbean gospel aesthetic -- Discourses on AIDS (+ sex) in Caribbean music -- Finding the new hardcore in Caribbean music -- Music video to web streaming : cultural ventriloquism @ the leading edge -- The "big technology" question.