Barbados--the Post-independence Period, 1966-1976
Author : P. I. Gomes
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Barbados
ISBN :
Author : P. I. Gomes
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Barbados
ISBN :
Author : Hilbourne A. Watson
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2020-11-18
Category :
ISBN : 9789766407742
Author : Hilbourne A. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Barbados
ISBN : 9789766407759
"[An] incisive and rigorous analysis of the conundrum facing a peripheral capitalist Caribbean society. Watson explains why Barbados, unable to break decisively with its colonial past and hamstrung by the deceit of the promise of sovereignty, is forced to make compromises with imperialism and its domestic representatives of capital".
Author : P. I. Gomes
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Barbados
ISBN :
Author : Barbados
Publisher :
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 1966
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sanka L. Price
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Hilbourne a Watson
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 2019-06-14
Category :
ISBN : 9789766407117
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1966*
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Barbados Government Information Service
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Barbados
ISBN :
Author : Sharon Meredith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351877348
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 the sugar plantations. After independence, an official desire to promulgate the country’s African heritage led to the revival and recontextualisation of cultural traditions. Barbadian tuk music, a type of fife and drum music, has been transformed in the post-independence period from a working class music associated with plantations and rum shops to a signifier of national culture, played at official functions and showcased to tourists. Based on ethnographic and archival research, Sharon Meredith considers the social, political and cultural developments in Barbados that led to the evolution, development and revival of tuk as well as cultural traditions associated with it. She places tuk in the context of other music in the country, and examines similar musics elsewhere that, whilst sharing some elements with tuk, have their own individual identities.