Roy Cape

Roy Cape
Author: Jocelyne Guilbault
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0822376164

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. 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. The idea for the book emerged from an exchange they had while discussing Roy's journey as a performer and bandleader. In conversation, they began experimenting with voice, with who takes the lead, who says what, when, to whom, and why. Their book reflects that dynamic, combining first-person narrative, dialogue, and the polyphony of Roy's bandmates' voices. Listening to recordings and looking at old photographs elicited more recollections, which allowed Roy to expand on recurring themes and motifs. This congenial, candid book offers different ways of knowing Roy's labor of loveā€”his sound and work through sound, his reputation and circulation as a renowned musician and bandleader in the world.

Governing Sound

Governing Sound
Author: Jocelyne Guilbault
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226310604

Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the redefination of Trinidadian cultural politics in the neoliberal era. The new rationailities, contigencies, desires and musical experments that animated the new musics and enabled them to gradually displace calypso from its centrality as national expression is examined.

Jump Up!

Jump Up!
Author: Ray Allen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190656840

Jump Up! Caribbean Carnival Music in New York City is the first comprehensive history of Trinidadian calypso and steelband music in the diaspora. Carnival, transplanted from Trinidad to Harlem in the 1930s and to Brooklyn in the late 1960s, provides the cultural context for the study. Blending oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Jump Up! examines how members of New York's diverse Anglophile-Caribbean communities forged transnational identities through the self-conscious embrace and transformation of select Carnival music styles and performances. The work fills a significant void in our understanding of how Caribbean Carnival music-specifically calypso, soca (soul/calypso), and steelband-evolved in the second half of the twentieth century as it flowed between its Island homeland and its bourgeoning New York migrant community. Jump Up! addresses the issues of music, migration, and identity head on, exploring the complex cycling of musical practices and the back-and-forth movement of singers, musicians, arrangers, producers, and cultural entrepreneurs between New York's diasporic communities and the Caribbean.

Songs for Cabo Verde

Songs for Cabo Verde
Author: Susan Hurley-Glowa
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1648250211

Chronicles the work of Norberto Tavares, a Cabo Verdean musician and humanitarian who served as the conscience of his island nation during the transition from Portuguese colony to democratic republic.

The Epic of Cassius Crossroads

The Epic of Cassius Crossroads
Author: Enrique Prado
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2022-05-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1665560541

Two hundred years ago a Man in Amber held the world on his back, but in his time of need, humanity coward, and were then cursed. Monsters of unspeakable horror now roam the earth, man now mutated to resemble the beast of the earth have fled to the farthest reaches. But against all odds they have managed to rebuild. In the land of Akumu Verde, the newest members of the Krahe Dragoons have been added to their ranks. Of them are Charles Crossroads, Roy, and Bawui, whose first assignment takes them to the edge of their homeland. Where what would have been a simple search and rescue, has now become a fight for their lives and sanity.