1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911102903003321

Autore

Rommen Timothy

Titolo

Funky Nassau : Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music / / Timothy Rommen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

9786613277862

9781283277860

1283277867

9780520948754

0520948750

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Music of the African Diaspora ; ; 15

Disciplina

781.64097296

Soggetti

Popular music - Bahamas - History and criticism

Popular music -- Bahamas -- History and criticism

Popular music - History and criticism - Bahamas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00055608

Autore

Gatto, Romano

Titolo

Tra scienza e immaginazione : le matematiche presso il Collegio gesuitico napoletano, 1552-1670 ca. / Romano Gatto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze, : Olschki, 1994

ISBN

88-222-4228-9

Descrizione fisica

392 p. ; 24 cm

Soggetti

01Axx - History of mathematics and mathematicians [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia