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Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
Governing Sound The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Author: Jocelyne Guilbault
Calypso music is an integral part of Trinidad?s national identity. When, for instance, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked the great Trinidadian musician Roaring Lion where he was from, Lion famously replied ?the land of calypso.? But in a nation as diverse as Trinidad, why is it that calypso has emerged as the emblematic music? — In Governing Sound,<...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226310602
ISBN-10: 0226310604
Publication Date: 9/15/2007
Pages: 352
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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