Beautiful Cosmos
Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora
Ramnarine, Tina K.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
What are the musical sounds that people remember in the diaspora? What are the sounds they create? Recognizing the importance that people attach to musical performances, this book explores the significance of widespread Caribbean genres in diaspora politics. 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 marginalization 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.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0745317669
ISBN(13-digit): 9780745317663
Dewey Decimal: 781
Book Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 245
