162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life, although most of the population are descended from enslaved Africans taken to Barbados to work on... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Setting the scene; Early Barbadian music and the development of Tuk; Playing Tuk; Historical and contemporary performance spaces; The Barbados landship; Tuk and modern Barbadian identity; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Sharon Meredith is an ethnomusicologist with research interests in the Caribbean, including the revival and recontextualisation of traditional musics as popular culture in postcolonial contexts, particularly fife and drum type musics. She graduated with a PhD from the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick, UK in 2003.
