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Author McDaniel, Lorna.

Title The Big Drum ritual of Carriacou : praisesongs in rememory of flight / Lorna McDaniel
Published Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 198 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Folk music -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island -- History and criticism
Folk songs, Creole -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island -- History and criticism
Folk dancing -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island
Rites and ceremonies -- Grenada -- Carriacou Island
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Latin.
Folk dancing
Folk music
Folk songs, Creole
Manners and customs
Rites and ceremonies
Music.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political.
Carriacou Island (Grenada) -- Social life and customs
Carriacou Island -- Social life and customs
Grenada -- Carriacou Island
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98013515
ISBN 0813021936
9780813021935