The Steelband Movement examines the dramatic transformation of pan from a Carnival street music into a national art and symbol in Trinidad and Tobago. By focusing on pan as a cultural process, Stephen Stuempfle demonstrates how the struggles and achievements of the steelband movement parallel the problems and successes of building a nation.
Stuempfle explores the history of the steelband from its emergence around 1940 as an assemblage of diverse metal containers to today's immense orchestra of high-precision instruments with bell-like tones. Drawing on interviews with different generations of pan musicians (including the earliest), a wide array of archival material, and field observations, the author traces the growth of the movement in the context of the grass-roots uprisings of the 1930s and 1940s, the American presence in Trinidad in World War II, the nationalist movement of the postwar period, the aftermath of independence from Britain in 1962, the Black Power protests and the oil boom of the 1970s, and the recession of recent years.
The Steelband Movement suggests that the history of pan has involved a series of negotiations between different ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, and social organizations, all of which have attempted to define and use the music according to their own values and interests. This drama provides a window into the ways in which Trinidadians have constructed various visions of a national identity.
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Stephen Stuempfle is Chief Curator for the Historical Museum of Southern Florida.
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The creators of the steelband in the 1930s and 1940s drew on musical and festive traditions that had been developing in Trinidad for well over a century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steelband recordings, pan soloists, steelband movement, steelband performances, many steelbands, cuff boom, steelband leaders, sailor mas, steelband association, early steelband, steelband music, steelband festivals, tamboo bamboo bands, steelband competition, steel orchestra, savannah stage, pan recordings, masquerade bands, sailor bands, saga boys, metallic percussion, colored middle class, playing pan, adult bands, differential acculturation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port of Spain, Pan Trinbago, West Indian, All Stars, Trinidad Guardian, Black Power, John John, Anthony Williams, Lennox Pierre, West Indies, Steelband Music Festival, Hell Yard, North Stars, Red Army, World War, United States, Green Corner, Merry Makers, Silver Stars, Youth Council, George Goddard, Prince Batson, Queen's Park Savannah, San Fernando, Woodford Square New!
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The creators of the steelband in the 1930s and 1940s drew on musical and festive traditions that had been developing in Trinidad for well over a century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
steelband recordings, pan soloists, steelband movement, steelband performances, many steelbands, cuff boom, steelband leaders, sailor mas, steelband association, early steelband, steelband music, steelband festivals, tamboo bamboo bands, steelband competition, steel orchestra, savannah stage, pan recordings, masquerade bands, sailor bands, saga boys, metallic percussion, colored middle class, playing pan, adult bands, differential acculturation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Port of Spain, Pan Trinbago, West Indian, All Stars, Trinidad Guardian, Black Power, John John, Anthony Williams, Lennox Pierre, West Indies, Steelband Music Festival, Hell Yard, North Stars, Red Army, World War, United States, Green Corner, Merry Makers, Silver Stars, Youth Council, George Goddard, Prince Batson, Queen's Park Savannah, San Fernando, Woodford Square New!
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