Phonographic memories : popular music and the contemporary Caribbean novel /

"Phonographic Memories is the first book-length analysis of Caribbean popular music in the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide poetics that attends to the centrality of Caribbean music in retrieving and replaying personal and cultural memories, Hamilton offers a fresh perspective on musical...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Hamilton, Njelle W., 1977- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press [2019]
Serier:Critical Caribbean studies.
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvscxs2s
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Phonographic memory : tracing the calypsonian's work in Lawrence Scott's Night calypso
  • "Record your memories" : the bolero aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos' The mambo kings play songs of love
  • Re-membering "body and soul" : gender, gwoka, and jazz in Daniel Maximin's Lone sun
  • Roots, romance, reggae : (dis)placing memory in Colin Channer's Waiting in vain
  • Memory as mixtape : the dub aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge.