Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand

by Jocelyne Guilbault

Book Overview

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known throughout the islands and the Caribbean diasporas in North America and Europe. Part ethnography, part biography, and part Caribbean music history, Roy Cape 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357747
• ISBN13: 9780822357742
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"