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Author Rommen, Timothy.

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

Imprint Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvi, 310 p. : ill., map.
Series Music of the African diaspora ; 15
Music of the African diaspora ; 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Popular music -- Bahamas -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520265684 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520265691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520948754 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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