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Phonographic Memories : Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel / Njelle W. Hamilton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Caribbean StudiesPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813596631
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.509357809729 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9205.05 .H36 2019eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Phonographic Memory: Tracing the Calypsonian’s Work in Lawrence Scott’s Night Calypso -- 2. “Record Your Memories”: The Bolero Aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos’s The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -- 3. Re-membering “Body and Soul”: Gender, Jazz, and Gwoka in Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun -- 4. Roots, Romance, Reggae: (Dis)Placing Memory in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain -- 5. Memory as Mixtape: The Dub Aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: 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
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Phonographic Memory: Tracing the Calypsonian’s Work in Lawrence Scott’s Night Calypso -- 2. “Record Your Memories”: The Bolero Aesthetic in Oscar Hijuelos’s The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love -- 3. Re-membering “Body and Soul”: Gender, Jazz, and Gwoka in Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun -- 4. Roots, Romance, Reggae: (Dis)Placing Memory in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain -- 5. Memory as Mixtape: The Dub Aesthetic in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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