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Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt Before Chopin's Heart

Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt Before Chopin's Heart

Brokken, Jan
Rollins, Scott

Paperback

Series: Caribbean Studies

Caribbean HistoryMusic ReferenceWorld Music

ISBN10: 1496820118
ISBN13: 9781496820112
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken to start writing this book, based on notes he took while living on Curaçao from 1993 to 2002.

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