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Culture at the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Poplular Music

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The anglophone Caribbean has long been celebrated and known for its vibrant and innovative music. Reggae, dancehall, calypso, soca, gospel and ringbang have flourished inside the Caribbean and have exploded at the world wide stage. Reasonably surprisingly, many facets of this contribution have not been analysed or discussed by academic writing. This work deliberately moves away from the customary exclusive center of attention on Trinidad and Jamaica and broadens the discourse to represent the wider region. It addresses such topics as the status of Caribbean gospel; the birth of new musical styles within the Eastern Caribbean; cultural misrepresentation in Caribbean music videos; the representation of Aids in Caribbean music; and the have an effect on of the particular music technology used by Caribbean musicians because the 1980s.

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