Mek Some Noise - Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Paperback)

"Mek Some Noise," Timothy RommenOCOs ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nationOCOs Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By exploring gospelypso, jamoo (JehovahOCOs music), gospel dancehall, and North American gospel music, along with the discourses that surround performances in these styles, he illustrates the extent to which value, meaning, and appropriateness are continually circumscribed and reinterpreted in the process of coming to terms with what it looks and sounds like to be a Full Gospel believer in Trinidad. The local, regional, and transnational implications of these musical styles, moreover, are read in relationship to their impact on belief (and vice versa), revealing the particularly nuanced poetics of conviction that drive both apologists and detractors of these styles. Rommen sets his investigation against a concisely drawn, richly historical narrative and introduces a theoretical approach which he calls the ethics of styleOCoa model that privileges the convictions embedded in this context and that emphasizes their role in shaping the terms upon which identity is continually being constructed in Trinidad. The result is an extended meditation on the convictions that lie behind the creation and reception of style in Full Gospel Trinidad."Copub: Center for Black Music Research ""

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Music of the African Diaspora, 11
Release date:	April 2007
First published:	April 2007
Authors:	Timothy Rommen
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-25068-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Soul & Gospel Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Soul & Gospel
LSN:	0-520-25068-0
Barcode:	9780520250680

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