Governing Sound The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics

Name: Governing Sound The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics
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ISBN: 9780226310602

ISBN-10: 0226310604

ISBN-13: 9780226310602

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jocelyne Guilbault

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Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. When, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the great Trinidadian musician Roaring Lion where he was from, Lion famously replied "the land of calypso." But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged as the emblematic music? In" Governing Sound," Jocelyne Guilbault examines the conditions that have enabled calypso to be valorized, contested, and targeted as a field of cultural politics in Trinidad. The prominence of calypso, Guilbault argues, is uniquely enmeshed in projects of governing and in competing imaginations of nation, race, and diaspora. During the colonial regime, the period of…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



CD Track List


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Calypso



Calypso's Historical Entanglements



Governing the Conduct of Carnival and Calypso



Power, Practice, and Competitions



Calypsonians Onstage /



Independence, Innovation, and Authenticity



Calypso's Musical Offshoots



Post-independence, Proliferation, and Permissible Traditions



Soca, Nation, and Discrepant Diasporas



Cultural Entrepreneurship under Neoliberalism


Coda References Selected Discography


Photographs follow page


CD Track List



Sam Manning: "Lieutenant Julian" (1929), oratorical calypso (also called "Sans Humanitï¿½")



Unknown singers: "We Goin' to Cut the Wood" (1956), lavway at funeral wakes (bongo)



"Daddy Axe" (1998), ragga soca




Brother Resistance: "Cyar Take Dat" (1996 version), rapso



"You" (2005), soca




"On the Road" (Brancker Version), Peter C. Lewis featuring Machel Montano (2003), soca




" Sting She" (2001), chutney soca




"Hamareh Galeeyah" (2001), chutney version




"Hamareh Galeeyah" (2001), chutney soca version