Jocelyne Guilbault
Biographic Data
| ID | 106205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jocelyne Guilbault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jocelyne |
| FAMILY NAME | Guilbault |
| SIGNATURE | GUILBAULT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transformative Outreach
This essay pays tribute to Rhoda Reddock's groundbreaking work as a scholar-activist. As an ethnomusicologist and scholar of popular music studies, the author shares how her immersive rereading of many of Reddock's publications on the (neo)colonial constructions of gender, race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity, to name only a few, made her increasingly aware of how her work exemplifies the kinds of interventions—intellectual, institutional, polit…
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Sounds of Vacation
The Political Economy of Music and Sound
Roy Cape's labour of love
While the recent scholarship on labour in cultural industries has drawn attention to the conditions and experiences of 'creative' workers, few publications have addressed the ethical values informing their work. In contrast to the widespread assumption that the commercialisation of culture in this era has led to the curtailing of moral values, this article argues that artistic work has never ceased to be informed by moral values, albeit not unive…
Politics of Ethnomusicological Knowledge Production and Circulation
It has long been recognized, both within the discipline and externally, that ethnomusicologists focus on interdisciplinarity, that we have been inspired by and borrowed theories and methodologies from several disciplines, including not only anthropology, but also linguistics, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and more recently, cultural geography, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and visual and media-technology studies. There is no problem with that. Th…
Music, Politics, and Pleasure
In this essay, I focus on soca, a music that has been criticized by numerous journalists, academics, calypsonians, politicians, and listeners for not engaging the political. Instead of dismissing soca as a legitimate critical public discourse, I address soca in relation to its politics of pleasure and the cultural work that live soca performances achieve through the creation of what I refer to as intimacies. Drawing on Lisa Lowe's critical insigh…
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West Indian Rhythm: Trinidad Calypsos on World and Local Events Featuring the Censored Recordings – 1938–1940, compiled and commented by The Classic Calypso Collective. Bear Family Records. BCD 16623 JM. ISBN: 978–3-89916–229–5 - Volume 27 Issue 1
Audible Entanglements
Research Article| March 01 2005 Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene Jocelyne Guilbault Jocelyne Guilbault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 40–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-40 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jocelyne Guilbault; Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene. Small Ax…
Awakening Spaces
Dangerous Crossroads
Interpreting world music
This article focuses on the issue of meanings in 'world music' practices. The main questions addressed are how such musical cultures take on meanings, and what meanings are constructed by such cultures. As Deborah Pacini has indicated, the term 'world music' in this case does not refer to a musical genre. It is used, rather, '[as] a marketing term describing the products of musical cross-fertilisation between the north - the US and Western Europe…
Créolitéandfrancophoniein music
This article deals with the contemporary cultural practices associated with two of the most salient socio-musical articulations of the créolité and francophonie movements: zoulk from the Caribbean and the popular mainstream from Québec, respectively. It aims to examine how socio-musical practices can make a significant contribution to singular political or literary movements such as créolité and francophonie, and to explore how distinct musics, w…
Musique et politique
Musiciens et chanteurs sont à l'origine de pratiques qui s'insèrent pleinement dans le jeu complexe des rapports sociaux. Aux stades de la création, de la production ou de la consommation, les musiques n'échappent jamais aux enjeux socio-culturels d'un lieu, d'une époque, d'une communauté humaine. Conformes ou dissidentes à l'égard des logiques dominantes, elles demeurent productrices d'émotions esthétiques et porteuses des liens sociaux. Les mus…
Music Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies
Calypso Calaloo
Mathilda, she take me money and run Venezuela, may sound familiar, but how about From a scandal and hideous bacchanal/Today we got a glorious carnival, or anywhere you go you must meet people sad/They search for employment, none can be had. Classic calypso, one of greatest creations of Caribbean culture, is more than frivolous music played for tourists in pink hotels overlooking tropical beaches. Much traditional calypso is also social commentary…
Creolite and the New Cultural Politics of Difference in Popular Music of the French West Indies
With the advent of a new world economic order, the proliferation of mass communications, and the formation of new political alliances over the past decade, there has been a redefinition of power relations among various cultures and states. In the process, whether by force of circumstance or as a tactical maneuver, spokespeople from dominant cultures are now openly recognizing that cultures are involved in one another; none is single and pure, all…
Sociopolitical, Cultural, and Economic Development Through Music
This article illustrates how music as an all-encompassing social act takes part in the construction and transformation of social reality. It focuses on zouk, an international music that emerged from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and examines its role as a sociopolitical, cultural, and economic force in the Creole-speaking islands. Following the description of the various changes that have accompanied zouk, a critical review of the notion of “develop…
"Authority" Revisited
Initially, we focused on the seemingly taken-for-granted ideas underlying these assertions, namely, that anthropological concerns can be transferred to other disciplines and be dealt with in the same fashion. But is it in fact possible to import into other fields of study anthropology's latest preoccupations concerning ethnography and ethnographic authority and if so, should scholars then address these issues exactly as anthropologists do, regard…
Les Musiques Guadeloupeennes dans le Champ Culturel Afro-Americain, au Sein des Musiques du Monde
La Musique dans la Societe Antillaise, 1635-1902
The Man-of-Words in the West Indies
Oral and Literate Strategies in Performances
This paper explores the differences between two social organizations of the West Indian island of St. Lucia. The rivalry between the and societies, exemplified in the adoption of contrasting strategies in performance, forms of communication, and sets of values, is examined in relation to the profound influences of written and oral traditions on people's consciousness (see Finnegan 1977; Havelock 1963, 1982; McLuhan 1962, 1964; Ong 1976, 1977, 198…
Fitness and Flexibility
The aim of the present paper is threefold: 1. to provide a detailed ethnography of the wakes in the Caribbean Creole-speaking island of St. Lucia; 2. to investigate the meaning of variation of the musical activities performed on such occasions; 3. to propose the study of human action in relation to constraints, i.e., examining the choice of musical genres performed at a given wake in conjunction with the various sorts of contexts (from Becker 198…
A St. Lucian "Kwadril" Evening
La longue periode de colonisation francaise puis anglaise a laisse des traces importantes au niveau du langage, de la religion, de l'organisation politique et de la musique a Sainte-Lucie. L'etude, la description et l'evolution d'une soiree kwadril et de ses differentes danses, dans sa conception, sa realisation et sa perception, montre comment les valeurs esthetiques et ethiques sont melees, comment les Noirs apprennent des Europeens les notions…
Interpreting world music
This article focuses on the issue of meanings in 'world music' practices. The main questions addressed are how such musical cultures take on meanings, and what meanings are constructed by such cultures. As Deborah Pacini has indicated, the term 'world music' in this case does not refer to a musical genre. It is used, rather, '[as] a marketing term describing the products of musical cross-fertilisation between the north - the US and Western Europe…
Music, Politics, and Pleasure
In this essay, I focus on soca, a music that has been criticized by numerous journalists, academics, calypsonians, politicians, and listeners for not engaging the political. Instead of dismissing soca as a legitimate critical public discourse, I address soca in relation to its politics of pleasure and the cultural work that live soca performances achieve through the creation of what I refer to as intimacies. Drawing on Lisa Lowe's critical insigh…
Audible Entanglements
Research Article| March 01 2005 Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene Jocelyne Guilbault Jocelyne Guilbault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 40–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-40 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jocelyne Guilbault; Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene. Small Ax…
Creolite and the New Cultural Politics of Difference in Popular Music of the French West Indies
With the advent of a new world economic order, the proliferation of mass communications, and the formation of new political alliances over the past decade, there has been a redefinition of power relations among various cultures and states. In the process, whether by force of circumstance or as a tactical maneuver, spokespeople from dominant cultures are now openly recognizing that cultures are involved in one another; none is single and pure, all…
Créolitéandfrancophoniein music
This article deals with the contemporary cultural practices associated with two of the most salient socio-musical articulations of the créolité and francophonie movements: zoulk from the Caribbean and the popular mainstream from Québec, respectively. It aims to examine how socio-musical practices can make a significant contribution to singular political or literary movements such as créolité and francophonie, and to explore how distinct musics, w…
"Authority" Revisited
Initially, we focused on the seemingly taken-for-granted ideas underlying these assertions, namely, that anthropological concerns can be transferred to other disciplines and be dealt with in the same fashion. But is it in fact possible to import into other fields of study anthropology's latest preoccupations concerning ethnography and ethnographic authority and if so, should scholars then address these issues exactly as anthropologists do, regard…
A St. Lucian "Kwadril" Evening
La longue periode de colonisation francaise puis anglaise a laisse des traces importantes au niveau du langage, de la religion, de l'organisation politique et de la musique a Sainte-Lucie. L'etude, la description et l'evolution d'une soiree kwadril et de ses differentes danses, dans sa conception, sa realisation et sa perception, montre comment les valeurs esthetiques et ethiques sont melees, comment les Noirs apprennent des Europeens les notions…
Politics of Ethnomusicological Knowledge Production and Circulation
It has long been recognized, both within the discipline and externally, that ethnomusicologists focus on interdisciplinarity, that we have been inspired by and borrowed theories and methodologies from several disciplines, including not only anthropology, but also linguistics, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and more recently, cultural geography, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and visual and media-technology studies. There is no problem with that. Th…
Sociopolitical, Cultural, and Economic Development Through Music
This article illustrates how music as an all-encompassing social act takes part in the construction and transformation of social reality. It focuses on zouk, an international music that emerged from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and examines its role as a sociopolitical, cultural, and economic force in the Creole-speaking islands. Following the description of the various changes that have accompanied zouk, a critical review of the notion of “develop…
Fitness and Flexibility
The aim of the present paper is threefold: 1. to provide a detailed ethnography of the wakes in the Caribbean Creole-speaking island of St. Lucia; 2. to investigate the meaning of variation of the musical activities performed on such occasions; 3. to propose the study of human action in relation to constraints, i.e., examining the choice of musical genres performed at a given wake in conjunction with the various sorts of contexts (from Becker 198…
Le Rossignol y Chante
A St. Lucian "Kwadril" Evening
La longue periode de colonisation francaise puis anglaise a laisse des traces importantes au niveau du langage, de la religion, de l'organisation politique et de la musique a Sainte-Lucie. L'etude, la description et l'evolution d'une soiree kwadril et de ses differentes danses, dans sa conception, sa realisation et sa perception, montre comment les valeurs esthetiques et ethiques sont melees, comment les Noirs apprennent des Europeens les notions…
Oral and Literate Strategies in Performances
This paper explores the differences between two social organizations of the West Indian island of St. Lucia. The rivalry between the and societies, exemplified in the adoption of contrasting strategies in performance, forms of communication, and sets of values, is examined in relation to the profound influences of written and oral traditions on people's consciousness (see Finnegan 1977; Havelock 1963, 1982; McLuhan 1962, 1964; Ong 1976, 1977, 198…
Fitness and Flexibility
The aim of the present paper is threefold: 1. to provide a detailed ethnography of the wakes in the Caribbean Creole-speaking island of St. Lucia; 2. to investigate the meaning of variation of the musical activities performed on such occasions; 3. to propose the study of human action in relation to constraints, i.e., examining the choice of musical genres performed at a given wake in conjunction with the various sorts of contexts (from Becker 198…
La Musique dans la Societe Antillaise, 1635-1902
The Man-of-Words in the West Indies
Les Musiques Guadeloupeennes dans le Champ Culturel Afro-Americain, au Sein des Musiques du Monde
"Authority" Revisited
Initially, we focused on the seemingly taken-for-granted ideas underlying these assertions, namely, that anthropological concerns can be transferred to other disciplines and be dealt with in the same fashion. But is it in fact possible to import into other fields of study anthropology's latest preoccupations concerning ethnography and ethnographic authority and if so, should scholars then address these issues exactly as anthropologists do, regard…
Sociopolitical, Cultural, and Economic Development Through Music
This article illustrates how music as an all-encompassing social act takes part in the construction and transformation of social reality. It focuses on zouk, an international music that emerged from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and examines its role as a sociopolitical, cultural, and economic force in the Creole-speaking islands. Following the description of the various changes that have accompanied zouk, a critical review of the notion of “develop…
Creolite and the New Cultural Politics of Difference in Popular Music of the French West Indies
With the advent of a new world economic order, the proliferation of mass communications, and the formation of new political alliances over the past decade, there has been a redefinition of power relations among various cultures and states. In the process, whether by force of circumstance or as a tactical maneuver, spokespeople from dominant cultures are now openly recognizing that cultures are involved in one another; none is single and pure, all…
Musique et politique
Musiciens et chanteurs sont à l'origine de pratiques qui s'insèrent pleinement dans le jeu complexe des rapports sociaux. Aux stades de la création, de la production ou de la consommation, les musiques n'échappent jamais aux enjeux socio-culturels d'un lieu, d'une époque, d'une communauté humaine. Conformes ou dissidentes à l'égard des logiques dominantes, elles demeurent productrices d'émotions esthétiques et porteuses des liens sociaux. Les mus…
Music Traditions of St. Lucia, West Indies
Calypso Calaloo
Mathilda, she take me money and run Venezuela, may sound familiar, but how about From a scandal and hideous bacchanal/Today we got a glorious carnival, or anywhere you go you must meet people sad/They search for employment, none can be had. Classic calypso, one of greatest creations of Caribbean culture, is more than frivolous music played for tourists in pink hotels overlooking tropical beaches. Much traditional calypso is also social commentary…
Dangerous Crossroads
Interpreting world music
This article focuses on the issue of meanings in 'world music' practices. The main questions addressed are how such musical cultures take on meanings, and what meanings are constructed by such cultures. As Deborah Pacini has indicated, the term 'world music' in this case does not refer to a musical genre. It is used, rather, '[as] a marketing term describing the products of musical cross-fertilisation between the north - the US and Western Europe…
Créolitéandfrancophoniein music
This article deals with the contemporary cultural practices associated with two of the most salient socio-musical articulations of the créolité and francophonie movements: zoulk from the Caribbean and the popular mainstream from Québec, respectively. It aims to examine how socio-musical practices can make a significant contribution to singular political or literary movements such as créolité and francophonie, and to explore how distinct musics, w…
Awakening Spaces
Audible Entanglements
Research Article| March 01 2005 Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene Jocelyne Guilbault Jocelyne Guilbault Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 40–63. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-40 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jocelyne Guilbault; Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene. Small Ax…
Título não encontrado
West Indian Rhythm: Trinidad Calypsos on World and Local Events Featuring the Censored Recordings – 1938–1940, compiled and commented by The Classic Calypso Collective. Bear Family Records. BCD 16623 JM. ISBN: 978–3-89916–229–5 - Volume 27 Issue 1
Music, Politics, and Pleasure
In this essay, I focus on soca, a music that has been criticized by numerous journalists, academics, calypsonians, politicians, and listeners for not engaging the political. Instead of dismissing soca as a legitimate critical public discourse, I address soca in relation to its politics of pleasure and the cultural work that live soca performances achieve through the creation of what I refer to as intimacies. Drawing on Lisa Lowe's critical insigh…
Politics of Ethnomusicological Knowledge Production and Circulation
It has long been recognized, both within the discipline and externally, that ethnomusicologists focus on interdisciplinarity, that we have been inspired by and borrowed theories and methodologies from several disciplines, including not only anthropology, but also linguistics, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and more recently, cultural geography, rhetoric, psychoanalysis, and visual and media-technology studies. There is no problem with that. Th…
Roy Cape's labour of love
While the recent scholarship on labour in cultural industries has drawn attention to the conditions and experiences of 'creative' workers, few publications have addressed the ethical values informing their work. In contrast to the widespread assumption that the commercialisation of culture in this era has led to the curtailing of moral values, this article argues that artistic work has never ceased to be informed by moral values, albeit not unive…
Sounds of Vacation
The Political Economy of Music and Sound
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