Author: CUMMINS, WILLIS
Title: Calypsos, Symphonies and Incest
Description: Toronto, Arawak Publishing House, Limited. 1974, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. 123pp. 8vo. Jacket illustrated with the author's commissioned canvas from Virgil Broodhagen on front wrapper, photograph of the author by John A. Buchan on rear wrapper. Price neatly blacked out with marker, but unclipped. Notable closed tear to the front of the dust jacket, neatly repaired with tape at verso. Internally, tight and clean. "A hard hitting, carefully constructed indictment of Western European society. The author utilizes the medium of music as a mirror with which to present some startling , disturbing and definitive statements on the status of women, and homosexuality. He shrewdly weaves a strong case against the social divisiveness of Western European music (classical music), in all cultures, and remarkably presents a new refreshing perspective of folk music, modern jazz, and calypso"..or so says the jacket flap.

Keywords: Music, Folk Music, Jazz


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