Funky Nassau

Timothy Rommen is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (UC Press), which in 2008 was awarded the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Map of the Bahamas 1. Nassau's Gone Funky: Sounding Some Themes in Bahamian Music 2. "Muddy da Water": Provincializing the Center, or Recentering the Periphery through Rake-n-Scrape 3. "Calypso Island": Exporting the Local, Particularizing the Region, and Developing the Sounds of Goombay 4. "Gone ta Bay": Institutionalizing Junkanoo, Festivalizing the Nation 5. "A New Day Dawning": Cosmopolitanism, Roots, and Identity in the Postcolony 6. "Back to the Island": Travels in Paradox--Creating the Future-Past Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

"[A] highly insightful book... Rommen here offers the most extensive publication to date on Bahamian music... [An] excellent study. -- Stephen Stuempfle Journal Of Anthropological Research "Funky Nassau gives an insider perspective on the complex routes and representations in Bahamian music before and after independence. Through many quotations from interviews and other sources the voice of Bahamian musicians and cultural activists is present ... Rommen reveals Bahamian roots in local popular music that cannot be discovered by an outsider." -- Krister Malm Popular Music "Rommen ... offers the most extensive publication to date on Bahamian music. It is a major contribution to Caribbean music scholarship." -- Stephen Stuempfle Journal Of Anthropological Research