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



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Autore: Rommen Timothy Visualizza persona
Titolo: Funky Nassau : Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music / / Timothy Rommen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2011]
©2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (332 p.)
Disciplina: 781.64097296
Soggetto topico: Popular music - Bahamas - History and criticism
Popular music -- Bahamas -- History and criticism
Popular music - History and criticism - Bahamas
Soggetto non controllato: afro bahamian
baha men
bahamas
bahamian culture
bahamian musicians
bay street
bilby
blind blake
calypso
caribbean
carnival
colonialism
colony
ethnomusicology
former colony
freedom
history
independence
islands
junkanoo
music
musicians
national identity
nonfiction
popular music
postcolonial
rake n scrape
rebellion
republic
revolution
tourism
tropical
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Funky Nassau  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27786-7
9786613277862
0-520-94875-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789634403321
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Serie: Music of the African Diaspora