Phonographic Memories
Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel
Seiten
2019
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9659-4 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9659-4 (ISBN)
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.
Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform 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 in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel’s soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory and situate Caribbean subjects in specific localities. These “musical fictions” depict Caribbean people turning to calypso, bolero, reggae, gwoka, and dub to record, retrieve, and replay personal and cultural memories. Offering a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization, Phonographic Memories affirms the continued importance of Caribbean music in providing contemporary novelists ethical narrative models for sounding marginalized memories and voices.
Njelle W. Hamilton's Spotify playlist to accompany Phonographic Memories: https://spoti.fi/2tCQRm8
Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform 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 in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel’s soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures that sustain collective memory and situate Caribbean subjects in specific localities. These “musical fictions” depict Caribbean people turning to calypso, bolero, reggae, gwoka, and dub to record, retrieve, and replay personal and cultural memories. Offering a fresh perspective on musical nationalism and nostalgic memory in the era of globalization, Phonographic Memories affirms the continued importance of Caribbean music in providing contemporary novelists ethical narrative models for sounding marginalized memories and voices.
Njelle W. Hamilton's Spotify playlist to accompany Phonographic Memories: https://spoti.fi/2tCQRm8
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 367 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8135-9659-9 / 0813596599 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8135-9659-4 / 9780813596594 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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