Funky Nassau [electronic resource] : Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music
Rommen, Timothy.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
2011.
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 transformatio
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Map of the Bahamas; Chapter 1: Nassau's Gone Funky: Sounding Some Themes in Bahamian Music; Chapter 2: "Muddy da Water": Provincializing the Center, or Recentering the Periphery through Rake-n-Scrape; Chapter 3: "Calypso Island": Exporting the Local, Particularizing the Region, and Developing the Sounds of Goombay; Chapter 4: "Gone ta Bay": Institutionalizing Junkanoo, Festivalizing the Nation; Chapter 5: "A New Day Dawning": Cosmopolitanism, Roots, and Identity in the Postcolony
Chapter 6: "Back to the Island": Travels in Paradox-Creating the Future-PastEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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 transformatio
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Popular music - Bahamas - History and criticism.
Popular music -- Bahamas -- History and criticism.
Popular music
Music
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
Music History & Criticism, Popular - Jazz, Rock, etc.