Governing Sound - The Cultural Politics of Trinidad''s Carnival Musics

Zusammenfassung Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad's national identity. But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged as the emblematic music? This book examines conditions that have enabled calypso to be valorized, contested, and targeted as a field of cultural politics in Trinidad.

Product details

• Authors: Jocelyne Guilbault
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2007
• EAN: 9780226310596
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31059-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries