Rommen, Timothy.

Funky Nassau roots, routes, and representation in Bahamian popular music / [electronic resource] : Timothy Rommen. - 1st ed. - Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011. - xvi, 310 p. : ill., map. - Music of the African diaspora ; 15 . - Music of the African diaspora ; 15. .

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.


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Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Popular music--History and criticism.--Bahamas


Electronic books.

ML3486.B34 / R66 2011eb

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