Timothy Rommen
Biographic Data
| ID | 84471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Rommen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Rommen |
| SIGNATURE | ROMMEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West State Technical University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Island Gospel
Sounds of Vacation
The Political Economy of Music and Sound
Some Cold Facts about Circuits and Circuit Breakers
Searching for Sugar Man, the celebrated 2012 documentary of Sixto Rodriguez's musical life, opens onto (but does not adequately address) important questions concerning musical circulation and reception. It is a story of two albums, Cold Fact (1970) and Coming From Reality (1971) that traveled in very different ways in the USA and South Africa and of how these travels were shaped by cultural politics and cultural circuits. But, it is also a story …
Bacchanalian Sentiments
Come Back Home
Bahamian musical life has been deeply informed and shaped by at least three separate but interrelated themes: 1) the physical interposition of the Bahamas between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; 2) tourism: and 3) the nation's colonial and postcolonial histories. These geographic, economic, and political influences are unthinkable without considering the ways that travel is implicated in each of them. Travel operates at several r…
Governing sound
Trinidad Carnival
Reviewed by: Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival Timothy Rommen Garth L. GreenPhilip W. Scher, eds. Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. X, 254 pp., index. Paper. ISBN: 0253348234 This collection of essays brings together under one cover a series of critical reflections on the transnational scope and increasingly global presence of Trini…
“Mek Some Noise”Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad
Music, Memory, and Identity in Full Gospel Trinidad 2. The Ethics of Style 3. Nationalism and the Soul: Gospelypso as Independence 4. Transnational Dreams, Global Desires: North America as Sound 5. Regionalisms: Performances beyond a Boundary 6. Jehovah's Music: Jammin' at the Margins of Trinidadian Gospel Music 7. Reenvisioning Ethics, Revisiting Style Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Mek Some Noise
"Mek Some Noise" , Timothy Rommen’s ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation’s Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By exploring gospelypso, jamoo ("Jehovah’s music"), gospel dancehall, and North American gospel music, along with the discourses that surround performances in …
Localize It
Research Article| October 01 2007 "Localize It": Rock, Cosmopolitanism, and the Nation in Trinidad Timothy Rommen Timothy Rommen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (3): 371–401. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Rommen; "Localize It": Rock, Cosmopolitanism, and the Nation in Trinidad. Ethnomusi…
Protestant vibrations? Reggae, Rastafari, and conscious Evangelicals
The globalisation of reggae continues to engender a wide range of highly poignant re-inscriptions and re-interpretations of reggae's sound and of Rastafarian thought. One of the most compelling of these has been the negotiation of Rastafarian and Christian ideologies within the context of Protestant reggae bands and artists. The application of Rastafarian thought, dress and language to the evangelical concerns of Protestants - at times paradoxica…
Nationalism and the Soul
East Indian Music in the West Indies
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Home Sweet Home
Wake up early one morning, Kiss my mama good-bye. Going back to de island, I say, Don't worry mama, don't cry. With this refrain-in words so clearly expressive of travel, displacement, kinship, and the concepts of home and away-the song Back to the Island (Big Beat 92190-2) calls forth an image of the Bahamas as a nation. The concerns raised by this text were mirrored and amplified in a conversation into which I fell while waiting to be seated at…
Protestant vibrations? Reggae, Rastafari, and conscious Evangelicals
The globalisation of reggae continues to engender a wide range of highly poignant re-inscriptions and re-interpretations of reggae's sound and of Rastafarian thought. One of the most compelling of these has been the negotiation of Rastafarian and Christian ideologies within the context of Protestant reggae bands and artists. The application of Rastafarian thought, dress and language to the evangelical concerns of Protestants - at times paradoxica…
Home Sweet Home
Wake up early one morning, Kiss my mama good-bye. Going back to de island, I say, Don't worry mama, don't cry. With this refrain-in words so clearly expressive of travel, displacement, kinship, and the concepts of home and away-the song Back to the Island (Big Beat 92190-2) calls forth an image of the Bahamas as a nation. The concerns raised by this text were mirrored and amplified in a conversation into which I fell while waiting to be seated at…
Some Cold Facts about Circuits and Circuit Breakers
Searching for Sugar Man, the celebrated 2012 documentary of Sixto Rodriguez's musical life, opens onto (but does not adequately address) important questions concerning musical circulation and reception. It is a story of two albums, Cold Fact (1970) and Coming From Reality (1971) that traveled in very different ways in the USA and South Africa and of how these travels were shaped by cultural politics and cultural circuits. But, it is also a story …
Home Sweet Home
Wake up early one morning, Kiss my mama good-bye. Going back to de island, I say, Don't worry mama, don't cry. With this refrain-in words so clearly expressive of travel, displacement, kinship, and the concepts of home and away-the song Back to the Island (Big Beat 92190-2) calls forth an image of the Bahamas as a nation. The concerns raised by this text were mirrored and amplified in a conversation into which I fell while waiting to be seated at…
Nationalism and the Soul
East Indian Music in the West Indies
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Protestant vibrations? Reggae, Rastafari, and conscious Evangelicals
The globalisation of reggae continues to engender a wide range of highly poignant re-inscriptions and re-interpretations of reggae's sound and of Rastafarian thought. One of the most compelling of these has been the negotiation of Rastafarian and Christian ideologies within the context of Protestant reggae bands and artists. The application of Rastafarian thought, dress and language to the evangelical concerns of Protestants - at times paradoxica…
“Mek Some Noise”Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad
Music, Memory, and Identity in Full Gospel Trinidad 2. The Ethics of Style 3. Nationalism and the Soul: Gospelypso as Independence 4. Transnational Dreams, Global Desires: North America as Sound 5. Regionalisms: Performances beyond a Boundary 6. Jehovah's Music: Jammin' at the Margins of Trinidadian Gospel Music 7. Reenvisioning Ethics, Revisiting Style Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Mek Some Noise
"Mek Some Noise" , Timothy Rommen’s ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation’s Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By exploring gospelypso, jamoo ("Jehovah’s music"), gospel dancehall, and North American gospel music, along with the discourses that surround performances in …
Localize It
Research Article| October 01 2007 "Localize It": Rock, Cosmopolitanism, and the Nation in Trinidad Timothy Rommen Timothy Rommen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnomusicology (2007) 51 (3): 371–401. https://doi.org/10.2307/20174543 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Timothy Rommen; "Localize It": Rock, Cosmopolitanism, and the Nation in Trinidad. Ethnomusi…
Trinidad Carnival
Reviewed by: Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival Timothy Rommen Garth L. GreenPhilip W. Scher, eds. Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. X, 254 pp., index. Paper. ISBN: 0253348234 This collection of essays brings together under one cover a series of critical reflections on the transnational scope and increasingly global presence of Trini…
Come Back Home
Bahamian musical life has been deeply informed and shaped by at least three separate but interrelated themes: 1) the physical interposition of the Bahamas between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; 2) tourism: and 3) the nation's colonial and postcolonial histories. These geographic, economic, and political influences are unthinkable without considering the ways that travel is implicated in each of them. Travel operates at several r…
Governing sound
Bacchanalian Sentiments
Some Cold Facts about Circuits and Circuit Breakers
Searching for Sugar Man, the celebrated 2012 documentary of Sixto Rodriguez's musical life, opens onto (but does not adequately address) important questions concerning musical circulation and reception. It is a story of two albums, Cold Fact (1970) and Coming From Reality (1971) that traveled in very different ways in the USA and South Africa and of how these travels were shaped by cultural politics and cultural circuits. But, it is also a story …
Sounds of Vacation
The Political Economy of Music and Sound
Island Gospel
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