ISBN:
9780813596600
,
9780813596594
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 222 Seiten
Series Statement:
Critical Carribean studies
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass 2012
DDC:
813/.509357809729
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Unterhaltungsmusik
;
Englisch
;
Karibik
;
Caribbean fiction (English) / 20th century / History and criticism
;
Music and literature / Caribbean Area / History / 20th century
;
Popular music in literature
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Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Karibik
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Unterhaltungsmusik
Abstract:
Phonographic memory : tracing the calypsonian's work in Lawrence Scott's Night calypso -- "Record your memories" : the bolero aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos' The mambo kings play songs of love -- Re-membering "body and soul" : gender, gwoka, and jazz in Daniel Maximin's Lone sun -- Roots, romance, reggae : (dis)placing memory in Colin Channer's Waiting in vain -- Memory as mixtape : the dub aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge
Abstract:
"Phonographic Memories is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean popular music in the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide poetics that attends to the centrality of Caribbean music in retrieving and replaying personal and cultural memories, Hamilton offers a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization"--
Note:
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Brandeis University, 2012, titled Sound writing : popular music in the contemporary Caribbean novel
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Includes bibliographical references and discography
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