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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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