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Phonographic Memories Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Author
Title
Phonographic Memories [electronic resource] : Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel / Njelle W. Hamilton.
ISBN
0813596637
9780813596631
0813596599
9780813596594 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780813596600 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 222 pages ).
Local Notes
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Notes
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Brandeis University, 2012, titled Sound writing : popular music in the contemporary Caribbean novel.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2019 Literature.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 03, 2019
Series
Critical Caribbean studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
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.
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