Songs of the Forgotten South: Van Dyke Parks and the Circum-Caribbean

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    Description

    A paper given at the Copenhagen Business School Center for the Study of the Americas conference, 'Popularizing the Americas: Music, Media and Movies.' The paper illustrates and interprets the efforts made by American song-writer and recording artist Van Dyke Parks to promote calypso and steel band music in the late 1960s and early 1970: before the vogue for reggae and the music industry's configuration of 'world music' in the 1980s.
    Period23 Sept 2005
    Event titlePopularizing the Americas: Media, Music and Movies
    Event typeConference
    OrganiserCenter for the Study of the Americas
    LocationKøbenhavn, DenmarkShow on map

    Keywords

    • Van Dyke Parks
    • calypso
    • steel band
    • Caribbean
    • Trinidad