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