Guilbault / Cape Roy Cape

A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7616-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guilbault, Jocelyne

Cape, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Musikindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on the Text xv

Introduction 1

1. For the Love of Music: Up from the Panyards and at the Orphanage 23

2. Working as a Bandsman 42

3. Listening to Roy Sounding 76

4. Leading the Band 99

5. Remembering with Pictures 135

6. Working with Roy: Musicians and Friends Speak 183

7. Circulation: Summarizing a Career 207

Afterword. Writing Voices 229

Notes 233

Select Discography 259

References 261

About the Companion CD 277

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Jocelyne Guilbault is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics and Zouk: World Music in the West Indies.

Roy Cape (born in Trinidad in 1942) is an internationally renowned calypso and soca musician and bandleader. He has toured widely, played on hundreds of recordings, and released eight albums with his band Roy Cape All Stars.