Governing sound : the cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics /
Jocelyne Guilbault.
- 2007.
- xii, 343 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., music ; 23 cm. + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.).
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-332), discography (p. 333-335), and index.
Calypso. Calypso's historical entanglements ; Governing the conduct of Carnival and calypso ; Power, practice, and competitions ; Calypsonians onstage ; Independence, innovation, and authenticity -- Calypso's musical offshoots. Postindependence, proliferation, and permissible traditions ; Soca, nation, and discrepant diasporas ; Cultural entrepreneurship under neoliberalism.
Calypso (Music)--History and criticism.--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad Carnival--History.--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad Calypso (Music)--Social aspects--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad. Calypso (Music)--Political aspects--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.