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"Mek some noise" : gospel music and the ethics of style in Trinidad / Timothy Rommen

Author
Rommen, Timothy
Additional Titles
Make some noise
Published
Berkleley : University of California Press ; Chicago : Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages).
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Contents
Music, memory, and identity in full gospel Trinidad -- The ethics of style -- Nationalism and the soul : gospelypso as independence -- Transnational dreams, global desires : North America as sound -- Regionalisms : performances beyond a boundary -- Jehova's music : jammin' at the margins of Trinidadian gospel music -- Reenvisioning ethics, revisiting style.
Summary
Timothy Rommen presents an ethnographic study of Caribbean gospel music, engaging the musical world of contemporary Christians in Trinidad and Tobago at the nexus where music and religion meet.
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ISBN
9780520940543 ebook
0520940547
9780520250673 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520250672 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520250680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520250680 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.
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