Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados

Curwen Best's The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados surveys the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists, and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music.

Curwen Best is professor of Popular Culture, Literary, and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus Barbados. He is Head of the Department of Language Linguistics and Literature.

Contents Introduction Chapter 1Tuk Chapter 2Bridges and Tracks Chapter 3Root Notes and Departures Chapter 4Staying and Crossing Over Chapter 5Low Frequencies Chapter 6Criticism. Culture Chapter 7The New Folk. Breaking with the Past Chapter 8The Culture Industry. Your Party or Mine? Chapter 9The Digital Nation Chapter 10Music Technology. Hard and Soft Options Bibliography