FUNKY NASSAU by Timothy Rommen ( 9780520265684 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

FUNKY NASSAU
ROOTS, ROUTES, AND REPRESENTATION IN BAHAMIAN POPULAR MUSIC

By:

Timothy Rommen

Format:

Hardback

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£80.00

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ISBN 10:

0520265688

ISBN 13:

9780520265684

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

19 May, 2011

Series:

Music of the African Diaspora 15

Pages:

332

Description:

Examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. This title examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

10 b/w photographs, 5 line drawings, 7 tables, 24 musical examples

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University of California Press

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