Renegades!: The Story of the BP Renegades Steel Orchestra - Softcover
The steel pan is not only the great success story of modern acoustic musical instruments, but also the sound of the Caribbean. All over the world steel pan resonates at carnivals, bringing the sound of the Caribbean to a wider audience. This is the story of pan, through one of its famous Trinidadian orchestras, showing their development from youth street gangs rooted in conflict to large, and peaceful orchestras.
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Helene Bellour teaches French and works as a freelance translator and editor in Chicago. She collaborated on the issue of The Drama Review devoted to Trinidad Carnival (1998) and currently pursues research on the same subject. Jeffrey Chock is a professional photographer in Trinidad where he was born. His photographs have been published internationally and he has exhibited his work in Canada and the USA. Kim Johnson, a journalist, is the features editor at the Trinidad Express newspaper. His most recent book is The Fragrance of Gold: Trinidad in the Age of Discovery, a history of the sixteenth century search for E1 Dorado. Milla Cozart Riggio is James J Goodwin Professor of English at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. She co-ordinated the first and second World Conferences on Carnival in 1996 and 1998 and edited a special edition of The Drama Review on Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. She is currently editing Culture in Action: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival (Routledge) and co-editing with Gordon Rohlehr Mas: From La Trinite to Trinity College
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- PublisherMacmillan Caribbean
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0333733118
- ISBN 13 9780333733110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages172
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Book Description Oversize Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the softcover edition, warmly inscribed inside the front cover and signed by the editor, Helene [Bellour]. Else, the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the cover bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 006651
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