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Carriacou String Band Serenade

Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean
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  • Carriacou String Band Serenade by Rebecca S. Miller
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An Eastern Caribbean music festival as a window on social change Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S. Miller examines the varying impact that factors such as cultural ambivalence, globalization, and technology have had on the performance of Carriacou's folk and traditional music and dance forms. Using archival sources and current ethnography, she illuminates the enduring significance of the Parang Festival to illustrate the social and political history of Carriacou as well as this culture's contemporary process of modernization. The book includes a web link allowing the reader to listen to a variety of musical examples.

Author Biography:

REBECCA S. MILLER is professor of music at Hampshire College, a public sector folklorist/documentary maker, and an accomplished traditional fiddler.
Release date Australia
October 8th, 2024
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
312
ISBN-13
9780819501486
Product ID
38595805

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