{"product_id":"roy-cape-9780822357605","title":"Roy Cape","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, \u003ci\u003eRoy Cape\u003c\/i\u003e is about the making of reputation and circulation, and about the meaning of labor and work ethics. An experiment in storytelling, it joins Roy's voice with that of ethnomusicologist Jocelyne Guilbault.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book is rich in the details of Cape’s life and his times. . . .Recommended.” -- T. E. Miller * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a superb book on a much-neglected area of world music: the pivotal role played by the bandleader, who for too long has remained in the shadows.” -- Charles de Ledesma * Songlines *\u003cbr\u003e\"The unique style of interweaving storytelling and anthropological research with the voices of Roy Cape, the subject of this work, and Jocelyne Guilbault, an astute ethnomusicologist, is both refreshing and exciting.... \u003ci\u003eRoy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand\u003c\/i\u003e is a mustread for all researchers, students, aspiring musicians, and aficionados of popular music in general and of Caribbean music and popular music culture in particular.\" -- Donna P. Hope * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e\"Jocelyne Guilbault... is one of the few non-Caribbean ethnomusicologists who has researched Eastern Caribbean music as if she is an insider, particularly from the perspective of band members rather than headline singers. Together in unique collaboration, this matched pair has created a short book that both illuminates the career of a pivotal musician and constructs a refreshing approach to narrative, diologic ethnomusicology.\" -- Donald Hill * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRoy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand\u003c\/i\u003e is a successful path finding experiment in terms of its content as well as of its form…. In departing from traditional or conventional biography towards the multivocal, multimodal presentation of Roy Cape, the book alters researchers to the fact that they, like Nobel-Prize winner Derek Walcott, need to create new metaphors for and forms of communicating our collective (musical) experience.”  -- Louis Regis * World of Music *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n admirable collaboration, both in producing new perspectives to existing Caribbean scholarship and in demonstrating that there is still much to learn from 'behind the scenes' of the West Indian carnival music industry.\" -- Amelia K. Ingram * Latin American Music Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"[W]hile reading \u003ci\u003eRoy Cape\u003c\/i\u003e, readers may end up feeling as though they are sitting around a coffee table in Trinidad with Guilbault and Cape, passing around old pictures and telling school stories or reminiscing about bands, sometimes with friends dropping by to lime (laugh, joke, drink, and tell stories).\" -- Gage Averill * Musicultures *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations        ix   Acknowledgments        xi   Notes on the Text        xv   Introduction        1   1. For the Love of Music: Up from the Panyards and at the Orphanage        23   2. Working as a Bandsman        42   3. Listening to Roy Sounding        76   4. Leading the Band        99   5. Remembering with Pictures        135   6. Working with Roy: Musicians and Friends Speak        183   7. Circulation: Summarizing a Career        207   Afterword. Writing Voices        229   Notes        233   Select Discography        259   References        261   About the Companion CD        277   Index        279","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406083662167,"sku":"9780822357605","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822357605.jpg?v=1730494469","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/roy-cape-9780822357605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}