Beautiful cosmos : performance and belonging in the Caribbean diaspora
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Beautiful cosmos : performance and belonging in the Caribbean diaspora
Pluto Press, 2007
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  Kyoto
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 home in the diaspora?' this book presents radical perspectives in the study of diaspora.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Memories
1. Home In The Diaspora
2. Performing 'Britishness'?
3. Towards Beautiful Cosmos
4. Dancing Diaspora
5. Riddim In Lyrics
6. "I'm A Stranger"
7. Reaching For The Trickster Gateway?
Notes
Bibliography and discography
Index
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