The steel pan is the great success story of acoustic musical instruments in the twentieth century. It begins just before World War II, when Carnival processions in Trinidad began knocking rhythms on bits of metal, dustbins, pots and pans. Within a decade and a half the same gangs, now called steelbands, were playing Chopin and Beethoven, mambos and jazz, and of course calypso. Renegades! tells the story of the steelband movement in words and images, focusing especially on the history of one which, perhaps more than any other, has come to symbolise the success of steelband music: The Renegades. This is the remarkable story of a youth gang's descent into violence, and their heroic climb out of it and into musical excellence.
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 272 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
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978-0-333-73311-0 (9780333733110)
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Helene Bellour teaches French and works as a freelance translator and editor in Chicago. She collaborated on the issue of The Drama Review devoted to Trinidad Carnival (1998) and currently pursues research on the same subject. Jeffrey Chock is a professional photographer in Trinidad where he was born. His photographs have been published internationally and he has exhibited his work in Canada and the USA. Kim Johnson, a journalist, is the features editor at the Trinidad Express newspaper. His most recent book is The Fragrance of Gold: Trinidad in the Age of Discovery, a history of the sixteenth century search for E1 Dorado. Milla Cozart Riggio is James J Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. She co-ordinated the first and second World Conferences on Carnival in 1996 and 1998 and edited a special edition of The Drama Review on Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. She is currently editing Culture in Action: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival (Routledge) and co-editing with Gordon Rohlehr Mas: From La Trinite to Trinity College
