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Regional Travels, Global Encounters, and Local Nostalgias in Bahamian Popular Musics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4873191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy Rommen (corresponding author), Timothy Rommen Timothy Rommen |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 159-183 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Music Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-0350 • E-ISSN: 1536-0199 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lat.0.0043 |
| OpenAlex | W1794282651 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
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 registers in the Bahamas, including at least physical travels, musical migrations and media flows, mobilities informed by center/periphery dynamics, and journeys related to time and nostalgia. Rake-n-scrape music opens an analytical window onto these spatial, economic, and socio-political registers within the Bahamas. This article thus traces the rake-n-scrape's movement from peripheral, traditional music to popular, urban soundtrack and follows this with an exploration of the politics attendant to the genre's more recent repositioning as roots music
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Literature · Mobilities · Musical · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Rake · Sociology · Tourism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Music History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |