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Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums:

Retention and Invention in Indo-Caribbean Music

ISBN-13: 9780252038815
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Peter Manuel
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Local release date: 13/02/2015
Format: Hardback 288 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Music [AV]

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Google Preview: The common threads and points of divergence in the music of the Indian diaspora in the CaribbeanToday's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic and sophisticated musical genre. A uniquely Indo-Trinidadian form, tassa drumming invites exploration of how the distinctive nature of the Indian diaspora and its relationship to its ancestral homeland influenced Indo-Caribbean music culture. Music scholar Peter Manuel traces the roots of neotraditional music genres like tassa drumming to North India and reveals the ways these genres represent survivals, departures, or innovative elaborations of transplanted music forms. Drawing on ethnographic work and a rich archive of field recordings, he contemplates the music carried to Trinidad by Bhojpuri-speaking and other immigrants in the early twentieth century, including forms that died out in India but continued to thrive and evolve in the Caribbean. His reassessment of ideas of creolization, retention, and cultural survival defies suggestions that the diaspora experience inevitably leads to the loss of the original culture, while also providing avenues to broader applications for work being done in other ethnic contexts.; ""The author is careful not to over-generalize, looking at each example in comparative contexts before making any broad theoretical claims. The work is provocative and will be a welcome addition to the literature on Indian diasporic music.""--Frank J. Korom, author of Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora ""A truly significant contribution. . . . The focus on under-theorized, flexibly handled, challengingly conceived if sometimes simple musical phenomena is much in keeping with Manuel's work throughout his career and this book is, in my view, a crowning achievement in that regard.""--Richard Wolf, author of The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia; Google Preview content

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Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums:

Retention and Invention in Indo-Caribbean Music