Music of Hindu Trinidad : Songs from the India Diaspora (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

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Summary: Outstanding, Brilliant, No. 1 in Ethnomusicology
Review: This meticulously researached volume presents a portrait of Felicity, an East Indian village of Trinidad. Presented in loving and human terms the author captures the viewpoint of the villagers themselves as they explain their music and culture. Free from the troubling jargon that bedevils so many recent studies in ethnomusicology, Myers's work is a model study that deserves serious scholarly attention. Highly recommended for specialists as well as general readers, who will be interested in the extensive coverage on Nobel-prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul and his highly musical family.