Funky Nassau Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music

Name: Funky Nassau Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
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ISBN: 9780520265691

ISBN-10: 0520265696

ISBN-13: 9780520265691

Edition: 2011

Authors: Timothy Rommen

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Timothy Rommenis Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author ofMek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad(UC Press), which in 2008 was awarded the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Map of the Bahamas



Nassau's Gone Funky: Sounding Some Themes in Bahamian Music



ï¿½Muddy da Waterï¿½: Provincializing the Center, or Recentering the Periphery through Rake-n-Scrape



ï¿½Calypso Islandï¿½: Exporting the Local, Particularizing the Region, and Developing the Sounds of Goombay



ï¿½Gone ta Bayï¿½: Institutionalizing Junkanoo, Festivalizing the Nation



ï¿½A New Day Dawningï¿½: Cosmopolitanism, Roots, and Identity in the Postcolony



ï¿½Back to the Islandï¿½: Travels in Paradox-Creating the Future-Past


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index