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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rommen, Timothy.

Contributor:

University Press Scholarship Online.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

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.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands' location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history.

Contents:

Funky Nassau : sounding some themes in Bahamian music

Muddy da water : provincializing the center, or recentering the periphery through rake-n-scrape

Nassau by the sea : 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 (pages 291-304) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Rommen, Timothy. Funky Nassau.

ISBN:

9780520948754

0520948750

1283277867

9781283277860

OCLC:

716238852

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.