Carriacou String Band Serenade
Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780819501486
Pub Date: 08 Oct 2024
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Series: Music/Culture
Illustrations: 24 b&w photos, 14 figures
Description:
An Eastern Caribbean music festival as a window on social change/>/>Every year, on a weekend before Christmas, the small Caribbean island of Carriacou, Grenada, holds its annual Parang Festival, featuring concerts, performances of local quadrille dance, Hosannah band (a cappella singing) competitions, and the climactic string band competition. Born in the years leading up to Grenada's 1979 Socialist Revolution, the Parang Festival today offers a vehicle for Carriacouans to articulate and assert a progressive understanding of local cultural identity as well as a regional, pan-Caribbean belonging. Rebecca S.