Governing sound : the cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics /
Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
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| Summary: | Written in two parts, part 1 explores the development of Calypso, from it's emergence in the pre-colonial period to the post colonial period. In part 2, the focus is on the new Carnival musical practices of soca, rapso, chutney, soca and ragga soca, and the ways in which they contirbuted to the redefination of Trinidadian cultural politics in the neoliberal era. The new rationailities, contigencies, desires and musical experments that animated the new musics and enabled them to gradually displace calypso from its centrality as national expression is examined. |
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| Item Description: | Accompanying compact disc contains musical examples related to the book. Contents of compact disc on page vii. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., music ; 23 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-332), discography (p. 333-335), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226310596 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226310590 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226310602 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226310604 (pbk. : alk. paper) |