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Funky Nassau [electronic resource] : roots, routes, and representation in Bahamian popular music / Timothy Rommen.

By: Rommen, Timothy.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Music of the African diaspora: 15.Publisher: Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: xvi, 310 p. : ill., map.Subject(s): Popular music -- Bahamas -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 781.64097296 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Funky Nassau : sounding some themes in Bahamian music -- Muddy da water : provincializing the center, or recentering the periphery through rake-n-scrape -- Nassau by the sea : exporting the local, particularizing the region, and the sounds of goombay -- Gone ta bay : institutionalizing junkanoo, festivalizing the nation -- A new day dawning : cosmopolitanism, roots, and identity in the post-colony -- Back to the island : travels in paradox, creating the future-past.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Funky Nassau : sounding some themes in Bahamian music -- Muddy da water : provincializing the center, or recentering the periphery through rake-n-scrape -- Nassau by the sea : exporting the local, particularizing the region, and the sounds of goombay -- Gone ta bay : institutionalizing junkanoo, festivalizing the nation -- A new day dawning : cosmopolitanism, roots, and identity in the post-colony -- Back to the island : travels in paradox, creating the future-past.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.