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Musical thoughts on unresolved questions and recent findings in big drum research.

Black Music Research Journal

| March 22, 2002 | McDaniel, Lorna | COPYRIGHT 2002 Center For Black Music Research. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I traveled to Carriacou, Grenada, immediately after reading Paule Marshall's novel, Praisesong for the Widow (1983). The novel introduced me to an island I had never heard of and to a society mysteriously unified in memorializing its past. After a first trip, I came to solidify my graduate school project of comparing stylistic musical types and eras of the various musics (1) on Carriacou. But when I realized the depth and historicity flowing from the Big Drum (with about 150 extant French Patois songs), I was enticed to study and collect the songs.

Carriacou is a simple, small island with about seven thousand people living on its arid soil and, some say, with the ...

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