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