Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel

by Njelle W. Hamilton

Phonographic Memories is the first book to perform a sustained analysis of the narrative and thematic influence of Caribbean popular music on the Caribbean novel. Tracing a region-wide attention to the deep connections between music and memory in the work of Lawrence Scott, Oscar Hijuelos, Colin Channer, Daniel Maximin, and Ramabai Espinet, Njelle Hamilton tunes in to each novel's soundtrack while considering the broader listening cultures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813596599
• ISBN13: 9780813596594
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"