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Author Guilbault, Jocelyne, author

Title Roy Cape : a life on the calypso and soca bandstand / Jocelyne Guilbault and Roy Cape
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) : illustrations
Contents For the love of music : up from the panyards and at the orphanage -- Working as a bandsman -- Listening to Roy sounding -- Leading the band -- Remembering with pictures -- Working with Roy : musicians and friends speak -- Circulation: summarizing a career -- Afterword: writing voices
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275), discography (pages 259-260) , and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Cape, Roy, 1942-
SUBJECT Cape, Roy, 1942-
Subject Calypso musicians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Biography
Saxophonists -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Biography
Band musicians -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
Band musicians.
Calypso musicians.
Saxophonists.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cape, Roy, 1942- author.
ISBN 9780822376163
0822376164