Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae (Latin America Bureau Books) - Softcover

Manuel, Peter; Bilby, Kenneth; Largey, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1899365079 ISBN 13: 9781899365074

Publisher: Latin America Bureau, 1996

Synopsis

Caribbean Currents is an exploration of the region's music - its forms and innovations, musicians, festivals, and dance halls, its fans - and traces its African, Asian and European roots. This book is oriented toward a few distinct yet overlapping sets of readers - music lovers and students of Caribbean society or of pan-American society in general

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Review

"[T]he many helpful discographies throughout the book--not to mention the cool photographs!--contribute to making this an essential text on some of the world's most irrepressible rhythms." --Booklist "Professor Manuel is a superb ethnomusicologist with several important books to his credit. He is well versed in the intricacies of hybrid music forms on the Caribbean... This is an excellent summary volume on Caribbean music." --Raul Fernandez, Professor of Social Sciences, University of California at Irvine "This excellent book encompasses Caribbean music in all its diversity and complexity. Manuel shows a great deal of contemporary sensibility and sensitivity in covering this fertile region of world music--he is able to relate the many musical traditions present in the region to those that are present in world music today." --Juan Flores, Director, Centro de Estudio Puertoriquenos, City University of New York

Edition details

• Publisher: Latin America Bureau
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1899365079
• ISBN 13: 9781899365074
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288