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13 - Musical Orality and Literacy in the Transmission of Knowledge and Praxis

Trinidad and Tobago

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2022

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Felicity Laurence  and
Nanette de Jong
Edited by
Nanette de Jong
Nanette de Jong
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University of Newcastle
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This chapter outlines musical orality and musical literacy in the modes of transmission of musical traditions, knowledge and skills within the double island nation Trinidad and Tobago. It begins with a brief outline of some wider music educational tendencies which can in turn provide a lens through which to view music educational policy and practice in Trinidad and Tobago. This is followed by a discussion of some of the central music-making practices found there, their historical foundations, current performance, and respective accompanying manifestations of musical orality and musical literacy in their transmission.

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Trinidad and TobagoMusical oralityMusical LiteracyMusic EducationMusicking

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The Cambridge Companion to Caribbean Music , pp. 186 - 208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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