The steel pan is the great success story of acoustic musical instruments in the twentieth century. It begins just before World War II, when Carnival processions in Trinidad began knocking rhythms on bits of metal, dustbins, pots and pans. Within a decade and a half the same gangs, now called steelbands, were playing Chopin and Beethoven, mambos and jazz, and of course calypso. Renegades! tells the story of the steelband movement in words and images, focusing especially on the history of one which, perhaps more than any ...
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The steel pan is the great success story of acoustic musical instruments in the twentieth century. It begins just before World War II, when Carnival processions in Trinidad began knocking rhythms on bits of metal, dustbins, pots and pans. Within a decade and a half the same gangs, now called steelbands, were playing Chopin and Beethoven, mambos and jazz, and of course calypso. Renegades! tells the story of the steelband movement in words and images, focusing especially on the history of one which, perhaps more than any other, has come to symbolise the success of steelband music: The Renegades. This is the remarkable story of a youth gang's descent into violence, and their heroic climb out of it and into musical excellence.
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