Funky Nassau: roots, routes, and representation in Bahamian popular music
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Main Author: Rommen, Timothy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©2011
Series:Music of the African diaspora 15
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
ISBN:0520265688
0520265696
0520948750
9780520265684
9780520265691
9780520948754

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