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Informationen zum Autor Curwen Best is professor of Popular Culture, Literary, and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados. He is Head of the Department of Language Linguistics and Literature. Klappentext Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados surveys the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists, and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Tuk Chapter 2 Bridges and TracksChapter 3 Root Notes and DeparturesChapter 4 Staying and Crossing OverChapter 5 Low FrequenciesChapter 6 Criticism. CultureChapter 7 The New Folk. Breaking with the PastChapter 8 The Culture Industry. Your Party or Mine?Chapter 9 The Digital NationChapter 10 Music Technology. Hard and Soft OptionsBibliography
