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Tales, tunes, and tassa drums : retention and invention in Indo-Caribbean music /

In this study, Peter Manuel discusses Indo-Caribbean music that uses a set of neotraditional music genres to explore how the distinctive nature of the diaspora and its relation to the ancestral homeland have conditioned the trajectories of its music culture. Focusing particularly on tassa drumming,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Manuel, Peter, 1952- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Bhojpuri (Indic people) > Caribbean Area > Music > History and criticism. Folk music > Caribbean Area > History and criticism. MUSIC / Ethnomusicology. HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.

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