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Retention and Invention in Bhojpuri diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives from the Caribbean, India, and Fiji
- Author(s):
- PETER MANUEL (see profile)
- Date:
- 2013
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/594v-bz91
- Abstract:
- In this paper I wish to focus on the traditional and neo-traditional stratum of Bhojpuri diasporic music culture in the Caribbean, with passing reference to Indo-Fijian music culture. Looking briefly at birha, chowtal, and the dantāl, I wish to suggest ways in which this music culture, despite its close affinities to sources in India, can also be seen to exhibit features which are in fact distinct from Old World South Asian practices and counterparts. Extending the paper’s focus to Trinidadian tassa drumming, another neo-traditional entity, I briefly explore how evident processes of retention and invention offer perspectives on diasporic dynamics and role of creolization therein.
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- Publisher:
- New Delhi: Serials Publications
- Pub. Date:
- 2013
- Book Title:
- Caribbean issues in the Indian Diaspora
- Author/Editor:
- Noor Kumar Mahabir
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 months ago
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Retention and Invention in Bhojpuri diasporic Music Culture: Perspectives from the Caribbean, India, and Fiji