Phonographic Memories - Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments..... vii

Introduction.....1

1. Phonographic Memory:

Tracing the Calypsonian's Work in Lawrence Scott's Night Calypso .....35

2. "Record Your Memories":

The Bolero Aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos' The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.....80

3. Re-Membering "Body and Soul":

Gender, Gwoka, and Jazz in Daniel Maximin's Lone Sun.....128

4. Roots, Romance, Reggae:

 (Dis)Placing Memory in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain .....182

5. Memory as Mixtape:

The Dub Aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge.....236

Coda.....283

Notes .....296

Works Cited .....TK

 

About the author

Njelle W. Hamilton is an assistant professor in the departments of English and African-American and African studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Summary

Provides a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel's soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory.

Product details

• Authors: Njelle W Hamilton, Njelle W. Hamilton
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.05.2019
• EAN: 9780813596600
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9660-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies