Download or Read online Carnival Canboulay and Calypso full in PDF, ePub and kindle. this book written by John Cowley and published by Cambridge University Press which was released on 27 January 1998 with total page 314 pages. We cannot guarantee that Carnival Canboulay and Calypso book is available in the library, click Get Book button and read full online book in your kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC or mobile whenever and wherever You Like. Starting from the days of slavery and following through to the first decades of the twentieth century, this book traces the evolution of Carnival and secular black music in Trinidad and the links that existed with other territories and beyond. Calypso emerged as the pre-eminent Carnival song from the end of the nineteenth century and its association with the festival is investigated, as are the first commercial recordings by Trinidad performers. These featured stringband instrumentals, 'calipsos' and stickfighting 'kalendas' (a carnival style popular from the last quarter of the nineteenth century). The emphasis of the book is on history, and great use is made of contemporary newspaper reports. colonial documents, travelogues, oral history and folklore, providing an authoritative treatment of a fascinating story in popular cultural history.
Carnival Canboulay and Calypso
- Author : John Cowley
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Pages : 314 pages
- ISBN : 9780521653893
- Release : 27 January 1998
- Rating : /5 from reviews