1.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910377841103321

Titolo

Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps : Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of a Global Marine Habitat / / edited by Andreas Teske, Verena Carvalho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-34827-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 199 p. 55 illus., 49 illus. in color.)

Collana

Springer Oceanography, , 2365-7677

Disciplina

574.52636

Soggetti

Hidrocarburs

Microbiologia marina

Biologia marina

Geobiology

Environmental geology

Microbial ecology

Bioorganic chemistry

Biogeosciences

Geoecology/Natural Processes

Microbial Ecology

Bioorganic Chemistry

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Diversity and assembly of seep-associated microbial communities -- Anaerobic hydrocarbon-degrading sulfate-reducing bacteria at marine gas and oil seeps -- Guaymas Basin, a hydrothermal hydrocarbon seep



ecosystem -- The Gulf of Mexico: An introductory survey of a seep-dominated seafloor landscape -- Benthic deep-sea life associated with asphaltic hydrocarbon emissions at Chapopote, southern Gulf of Mexico -- Archaea in Mediterranean Sea cold seep sediments and brine pools -- The microbial communities of the East Mediterranean Sea mud volcanoes and pockmarks -- Large sulfur-oxidizing bacteria at Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seeps -- Growth patterns of giant deep-sea Beggiatoaceae from a Guaymas Basin vent site -- Uncovering microbial hydrocarbon degradation processes: the promise of stable isotope probing.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the microbiology, biogeochemistry, and ecology of marine hydrocarbon seeps, a globally occurring habitat for specialized microorganisms and invertebrates that depend on natural hydrocarbon seepage as a food and energy source. Prominent examples include the briny hydrocarbon seeps and mud volcanoes on the continental slope of the Gulf of Mexico and in the Mediterranean, the hydrothermally heated hydrocarbon seeps at Guaymas Basin (Mexico), and the oil and gas seeps off the coast of California and in the Gulf of Mexico. Featuring topical chapters by leading researchers in the area, the book describes geological settings, chemical characteristics of hydrocarbon seepage, hydrocarbon-dependent microbial populations, and ecosystem structure and trophic networks at hydrocarbon seeps. Further, it also discusses applied aspects such as bioremediation potential (oil-degrading microorganisms).