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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789634403321

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

1-283-27786-7

9786613277862

0-520-94875-0

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.