Dropping the bomb: Steelband performance and meaning in 1960s Trinidad

Ethnomusicology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 135-164

  Dudley, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 60949894526     PISSN: 00141836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/852811     Document Type: Article

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