This book examines the role music has played in the formation of
the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen
analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped
by the islands' location between the United States and the rest of
the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial
history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in particular
rake-n-scrape and Junkanoo, Rommen finds a Bahamian music that has
remained culturally rooted in the local even as it has undergone
major transformations. Highlighting the ways entertainers have
represented themselves to Bahamians and to tourists, "Funky Nassau"
illustrates the shifting terrain that musicians navigated during
the rapid growth of tourism and in the aftermath of independence.
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