The Amsterdam quintet KiT twists Afro-Caribbean tradition into an accessible, club-ready style. KiT, or Kuenta i Tambu — "Stories and Drums" — takes music from the Caribbean island of Curaçao, merges ...

Tradition is a tricky beast. There are those who would leave it as a dusty, living museum exhibit. Then there are others who see further, into thepossibility of tradition, a line that runs through ...

Roël Calister launched his career in the Netherlands playing tambú, a genre traditional to his native Curaçao, the Caribbean island near the Venezuelan coast. Originally sticking to an all-acoustic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Begun in 1980, Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of each year and includes articles about the ...