Governing sound
Subtitle: the cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics
By: Jocelyne Guilbault.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780226310602
Description: Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the redefination of Trinidadian cultural politics in the neoliberal era. The new rationailities, contigencies, desires and musical experments that animated the new musics and enabled them to gradually displace calypso from its centrality as national expression is examined.