Tales, Tunes, and Tassa DrumsToday's popular tassa drumming emerged from the fragments of transplanted Indian music traditions half forgotten and creatively recombined, rearticulated, and elaborated into a dynamic musical genre. A uniquely Indo Trinidadian form, tassa drumming invites exploration of how the distinctive nature of the Indian diaspora and its relationship to its ancestral homeland influenced Indo Caribbean music culture. Music scholar Peter Manuel traces the roots