TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDaniel,Lorna
TI  - The Big Drum ritual of Carriacou: praisesongs in rememory of flight 
SN  - 0813021936
AV  - ML3565 .M386 1998eb
U1  - 781.62/969729845 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Gainesville, Fla.
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - Folk music
KW  - Grenada
KW  - Carriacou Island
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folk songs, Creole
KW  - Folk dancing
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Chansons folkloriques créoles
KW  - Grenade
KW  - Carriacou
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Danse folklorique
KW  - Rites et cérémonies
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Genres & Styles
KW  - Latin
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Music
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Music, Dance, Drama & Film
KW  - Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political
KW  - Carriacou Island (Grenada)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Carriacou (Grenade)
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index; 1. The runagate nation. Dance classifications. Ceremony outline. Dance description. Carriacou history and people. The concept of nation. The musical interpretation. The concept of nation in song. Cromanti songs. Igbo songs. Manding songs. Songs of the remaining nations -- 2. Sleepers awake! the mediation of symbols. Social structure and the dance. Quashie genealogy -- 3. Lave Tete. Spirit manifestation in danced religions. The "invented tradition": Rastafarianism. Orisa of Trinidad. Shakers, shouters, and spiritual baptists. Esu Elegbara and dance/songs -- 4. Beg pardon. Composition in the Big Drum. Extended forms. Stylistic elements. The textual classification. Wanga in women's songs. Songs of migration and protest. Age of songs. Parang in contemporary composition. The calypso as ritual successor -- App. 1. Big Drum song list
N2  - The Big Drum is the lively ancient dance rite of the small island of Carriacou, Grenada. This book introduces 129 of the ceremonial song texts and dances that call and entertain the ancestors who are central to Carriacou religious experience. McDaniel, who lived in Carriacou at the time of the 1983 invasion of Grenada, frequently observed Big Drum dances and interviewed many "old heads" (wise people) for this book. She concludes it with an analysis of a single calypso that memorializes the invasion and illustrates the history-keeping function of the calypso and Big Drum. She uncovers a structural relationship between ancient praisesongs and modern political songs and suggests the continuing impact of music on the memory of Caribbean people
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