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Funky Nassau : Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music / Timothy Rommen.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rommen, Timothy, Author.
- Series:
- Music of the African Diaspora
- Music of the African Diaspora ; 15
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Bahamas--History and criticism.
- Popular music--History and criticism--Bahamas.
- Popular music.
- Local Subjects:
- Popular music--Bahamas--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy 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. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in particular rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, Rommen finds a Bahamian music that has remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, Funky Nassau illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Map of the Bahamas
- 1. Nassau's Gone Funky: Sounding Some Themes in Bahamian Music
- 2. "Muddy da Water": Provincializing the Center, or Recentering the Periphery through Rake-n-Scrape
- 3. "Calypso Island": Exporting the Local, Particularizing the Region, and Developing the Sounds of Goombay
- 4. "Gone ta Bay": Institutionalizing Junkanoo, Festivalizing the Nation
- 5. "A New Day Dawning": Cosmopolitanism, Roots, and Identity in the Postcolony
- 6. "Back to the Island": Travels in Paradox-Creating the Future-Past
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613277862
- 9781283277860
- 1283277867
- 9780520948754
- 0520948750
- OCLC:
- 710975199
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