- 332 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Map of the Bahamas
- Chapter 1: Nassauâs Gone Funky: Sounding Some Themes in Bahamian Music
- Chapter 2: âMuddy da Waterâ: Provincializing the Center, or Recentering the Periphery through Rake-n-Scrape
- Chapter 3: âCalypso Islandâ: Exporting the Local, Particularizing the Region, and Developing the Sounds of Goombay
- Chapter 4: âGone ta Bayâ: Institutionalizing Junkanoo, Festivalizing the Nation
- Chapter 5: âA New Day Dawningâ: Cosmopolitanism, Roots, and Identity in the Postcolony
- Chapter 6: âBack to the Islandâ: Travels in ParadoxâCreating the Future-Past
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index