Phonographic memories : popular music and the contemporary Caribbean novel / Njelle W. Hamilton.

By:

Hamilton, Njelle W, 1977- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical Caribbean studiesPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813596631
0813596637
0813596602
9780813596600

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Phonographic memories.DDC classification:

813/.509357809729 23

LOC classification:

PR9205.05 .H36 2019eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

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Print version record.

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Brandeis University, 2012, titled Sound writing : popular music in the contemporary Caribbean novel.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

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