Bio
Curwen Best did his undergraduate degree and MPhil at The UWI, Cave Hill before going on to the University of Birmingham to read for his PhD. He joined The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in the mid-1990s as Assistant Lecturer. He pioneered the teaching of Popular Culture at Cave Hill while also conducting frontier research on facets of Caribbean and Western culture. The findings of this research are contained in his major publications. He is currently Professor of Popular Culture and Literary Studies.
Qualifications
PhD, Birmingham
MPhil, The UWI
BA, The UWI
Research Areas
Popular Culture; Cyberculture; Caribbean Literature and culture.
Select Publications
Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo: Art Politics and the Music of Ritual (2009)
The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture (2008)
Culture @ the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Popular Music (2005)
Roots to Popular Culture: Barbadian Aesthetics from Kamau Brathwaite to Hardcore Styles (2001)
Barbadian Popular Music: and the Politics of Caribbean Culture (1999)