Funky Nassau
Subtitle: roots, routes, and representation in Bahamian popular music / Timothy Rommen
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Music of the African diaspora -- 15
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780520265684; 9780520265691
Subjects: Popular music; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Funky Nassau : sounding some themes in Bahamian music; title: Muddy da water : provincializing the center, or recentering the periphery through rake-n-scrape; title: Nassau by the sea : exporting the local, particularizing the region, and the sounds of goombay; title: Gone ta bay : institutionalizing junkanoo, festivalizing the nation; title: A new day dawning : cosmopolitanism, roots, and identity in the post-colony; title: Back to the island : travels in paradox, creating the future-past.