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Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora
Tina K. Ramnarine
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Description for Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora
Paperback. Examines the significance of Caribbean musics in Diaspora politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 figures, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJ; AVA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognising the importance that people attach to musical performances, this book explores the significance of widespread Caribbean genres in diaspora politics.
Tina K. Ramnarine uses ethnographic approaches to unravel creative processes of memory, innovation and production and to interrogate geographies of musical canons, hybridity discourses and culture theory. She challenges us to rethink diaspora as only being about displacement, to move beyond the limits of marginalisation and otherness, and to imagine the possibilities of 'beautiful cosmos'. Asking 'where is ... Read more
What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognising the importance that people attach to musical performances, this book explores the significance of widespread Caribbean genres in diaspora politics.
Tina K. Ramnarine uses ethnographic approaches to unravel creative processes of memory, innovation and production and to interrogate geographies of musical canons, hybridity discourses and culture theory. She challenges us to rethink diaspora as only being about displacement, to move beyond the limits of marginalisation and otherness, and to imagine the possibilities of 'beautiful cosmos'. Asking 'where is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745317663
SKU
V9780745317663
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About Tina K. Ramnarine
Tina K. Ramnarine is a musician, writer and Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora (Pluto, 2007), amongst other books.
Reviews for Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora
'A persuasive political and academic alternative for the study of Caribbean Diaspora'
Carlo A. Cubero, Anthropological Notebooks, XIV/2, 2008
Carlo A. Cubero, Anthropological Notebooks, XIV/2, 2008