| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. The runagate nation. Dance classifications. Ceremony outline. Dance description. Carriacou history and people. The concept of nation. The musical interpretation. The concept of nation in song. Cromanti songs. Igbo songs. Manding songs. Songs of the remaining nations -- 2. Sleepers awake! the mediation of symbols. Social structure and the dance. Quashie genealogy -- 3. Lave Tete. Spirit manifestation in danced religions. The "invented tradition": Rastafarianism. Orisa of Trinidad. Shakers, shouters, and spiritual baptists. Esu Elegbara and dance/songs -- 4. Beg pardon. Composition in the Big Drum. Extended forms. Stylistic elements. The textual classification. Wanga in women's songs. Songs of migration and protest. Age of songs. Parang in contemporary composition. The calypso as ritual successor -- App. 1. Big Drum song list |
| Summary |
The Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 129 of the ceremonial song texts and dances that call and entertain the ancestors who are central to Carriacou religious experience. McDaniel, who lived in Carriacou at the time of the 1983 invasion of Grenada, frequently observed Big Drum dances and interviewed many "old heads" (wise people) for this book. She concludes it with an analysis of a single calypso that memorializes the invasion and illustrates the history-keeping function of the calypso and Big Drum. She uncovers a structural relationship between ancient praisesongs and modern political songs and suggests the continuing impact of music on the memory of Caribbean people |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Folk music -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island -- History and criticism
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Folk songs, Creole -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island -- History and criticism
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Folk dancing -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island
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Rites and ceremonies -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Latin.
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Folk dancing
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Folk music
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Folk songs, Creole
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Manners and customs
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Rites and ceremonies
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Music.
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Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
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Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political.
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Carriacou Island (Grenada) -- Social life and customs
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Carriacou Island -- Social life and customs
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Grenada -- Carriacou Island
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98013515 |
| ISBN |
0813021936 |
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9780813021935 |
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