Tales, Tunes, and Tassa Drums: Retention and Invention Into Indo-Caribbean Music

by Peter Manuel

Today's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half-forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre. A uniquely Indo-Trinidadian form, tassa drumming invites exploration of how the distinctive nature of the Indian diaspora and its relationship to its ancestral homeland influenced Indo-Caribbean music culture.

Music scholar Peter Manuel traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252038819
• ISBN13: 9780252038815
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"