Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics [With CD]

by 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, Jocelyne Guilbault examines the conditions that have enabled calypso to be valorized, contested, and targeted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226310604
• ISBN13: 9780226310602
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"