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Funky Nassau : roots, routes, and representation in Bahamian popular music / Timothy Rommen.

LIBRA ML3486.B34 R66 2011
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Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3486.B34 R66 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rommen, Timothy.
Series:
Music of the African diaspora ; 15.
Music of the African diaspora ; 15
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Popular music--Bahamas--History and criticism.
Popular music.
Bahamas.
Physical Description:
xvi, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Berkeley : University of California Press ; Chicago : Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, [2011]
Contents:
Nassau's gone Funky : sounding some themes in Bahamian music
Muddy da water : provincializing the center, or recentering the periphery through rake-n-scrape
Calypso Island : exporting the local, particularizing the region, and the sounds of goombay
Gone ta bay : institutionalizing junkanoo, festivalizing the nation
A new day dawning : cosmopolitanism, roots, and identity in the post-colony
Back to the island : travels in paradox, creating the future-past.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780520265684
0520265688
9780520265691
0520265696
OCLC:
668191599

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