""Mek Some Noise"" : Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad
Timothy. Rommen
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2007.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (231 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Music, Memory, and Identity in Full Gospel Trinidad; 2. The Ethics of Style; 3. Nationalism and the Soul: Gospelypso as Independence; 4. Transnational Dreams, Global Desires: North America as Sound; 5. Regionalisms: Performances beyond a Boundary; 6. Jehovah's Music: Jammin' at the Margins of Trinidadian Gospel Music; 7. Reenvisioning Ethics, Revisiting Style; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. - ""Mek Some Noise"", Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By exploring gospelypso, jamoo (""Jehovah's music""), gospel dancehall, and North American gospel music, along with the discourses that surround performances in these styles, he illustrates the extent to which value, meaning, and appropriateness are continually circumscribed and reinterpreted in the
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| ISBN | 9780520250673. - 9780520250680
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