Author: Stephen Stuempfle
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780812233292
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Steelband Movement examines the dramatic transformation of pan from a Carnival street music into a national art and symbol in Trinidad and Tobago. By focusing on pan as a cultural process, Stephen Stuempfle demonstrates how the struggles and achievements of the steelband movement parallel the problems and successes of building a nation. Stuempfle explores the history of the steelband from its emergence around 1940 as an assemblage of diverse metal containers to today's immense orchestra of high-precision instruments with bell-like tones. Drawing on interviews with different generations of pan musicians (including the earliest), a wide array of archival material, and field observations, the author traces the growth of the movement in the context of the grass-roots uprisings of the 1930s and 1940s, the American presence in Trinidad in World War II, the nationalist movement of the postwar period, the aftermath of independence from Britain in 1962, the Black Power protests and the oil boom of the 1970s, and the recession of recent years. The Steelband Movement suggests that the history of pan has involved a series of negotiations between different ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, and social organizations, all of which have attempted to define and use the music according to their own values and interests. This drama provides a window into the ways in which Trinidadians have constructed various visions of a national identity.
Author: Brandon L. Haskett
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2018-12-05
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1498575706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Haskett examines the spread of steel band in US schools and universities. This phenomenon is examined within the context of the music education field.
Author: Angela Smith
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0810883422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Steel Drums and Steelbands: A History is a vivid account of the events that led to the “accidental” invention of the steel drum: the only acoustic musical instrument invented in the 20th century. Angela Smith walks readers through the evolution of the steel drum from an object of scorn and tool of violence to one of the most studied, performed, and appreciated musical instruments today. Smith explores the development of the modern steelband, from its roots in African slavery in early Trinidad to the vast array of experiments in technological innovation and to the current explosion of steelbands in American schools. The book offers insights directly from major contributors of the steelband movement with sections devoted exclusively to pioneers and innovators. Drawing on seven years of research, repeated trips to the birthplace of the steel drum, Trinidad, and interviews with steelband pioneers, Smith takes readers far beyond the sunny associations of the steel drum with island vacations, cruise ships, and multiple encores of “Yellow Bird.” Digging deep into Trinidad’s history—a tale of indigenous extermination and African slavery, of French settlement and Spanish and British colonialism before mid-century independence—Smith weaves an unforgettable narrative of talking drums, kalinda stick fights, tamboo bamboo bands, iron bands, calypso, Carnival, and the U. S. military. Together, all played major roles in the evolution of today’s steelband and in the panman’s journey from renegade to hero in the steelband’s move from the panyards of Trinidad’s poorest neighborhoods to the world’s most prestigious concert halls. The reader will discover how an instrument created by teenage boys, descendants of African slaves, became a world musical phenomena. Steel Drums and Steelbands is the ideal introduction to the steel drum, steelbands, and their history.
Author: Guillermo Antonio Prospect
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roderick Hunt
Publisher:
Published: 2004-02-05
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780199196937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Phonics:* Promote phonological awareness at Stage 1+ with rhyming stories * Provide more phonically decodable nouns as well as sight-cueable words * Practise Reception and Year 1 sight vocabulary throughout * Include flexible, easy-to-use, FREE Teaching Notes in each Pack * Support your Home-School Agreement with Take-Home Cards for every bookAt Stage 3, First Phonics books practise clear initial and final consonants, Reception and Year 1 sight words, CVC words, and CVCC/CCVC wordsThe Pack also includes a set of Teaching Notes, which provide:* prompts and suggestions for using the books in group and independent reading, including specific activities * ideas for speaking and listening activities * ideas for writing activities * cross-curricular links * helpful points to help you observe children's developing skills and strategiesThey also include:* a correlation chart showing all vocabulary used * a correlation chart showing curriculum links * links to other Oxford Reading Tree material at this level
Author: Verna Wilkins
Publisher:
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781870516747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The steel pan is the only musical instrument to have been invented in the 20th century. The story begins in Trinidad, in the Caribbean, where the people first begin to use all kinds of metal objects to make music. They collected a wide variety of assorted tins and shaped them and tuned them until they were turned into musical instruments. From Trinidad, the mighty steel orchestra has spread across the world. Includes a CD of Sterling's Angels (children's steel band led by Pan Maestro Sterling Betancourt) playing a range of music.
Author: Wendy Green
Publisher: Hamlyn
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780600207238
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