Sounds of Vacation (eBook, PDF)

Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism
Redaktion: Jocelyne Guilbault, Guilbault

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Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to Sounds of Vacation examine the commodification of music and sound at popular vacation destinations throughout the Caribbean in order to tease out the relationships between political economy, hospitality, and the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Drawing on case studies from Barbados, the Bahamas, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, and Saint Lucia, the contributors point to the myriad ways live performances, programmed music, and the sonic environment heighten tourists' pleasurable vacation experience. They explore, among other topics, issues of authenticity in Bahamian music; efforts to give tourists in Barbados peace and quiet at a former site of colonial violence; and how resort soundscapes extend beyond music to encompass the speech accents of local residents. Through interviews with resort managers, musicians, and hospitality workers, the contributors also outline the social, political, and economic pressures and interests that affect musical labor and the social encounters of musical production. In so doing, they prompt a rethinking of how to account for music and sound's resonances in postcolonial spaces.Contributors. Jerome Camal, Steven Feld, Francio Guadeloupe, Jocelyne Guilbault, Jordi Halfman, Susan Harewood, Percy C. Hintzen, Timothy Rommen

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478005315
• Artikelnr.: 66282459

Autorenporträt

Jocelyne Guilbault is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthor of Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand, also published by Duke University Press. Timothy Rommen is Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Funky Nassau: Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Prologue / Steven Feld  1
Introduction. The Political Economy of Music and Sound: Case Studies in the
Caribbean Tourism Industry / Jocelyne Guilbault and Timothy Rommen  9
1. It Sounds Better in the Bahamas: Musicians, Management, and the Markets
in Nassau's All-Inclusive Hotels / Timothy Rommen  41
2. Touristic Rhythms: The Club Remix / Jerome Camal  77
3. Listening for Noise: Seeking Disturbing Sounds in Tourist Spaces / Susan
Harewood  107
4. All-Inclusive Resorts in Sint Maarten and Our Common Decolonial State:
On Butterflies That Are Caterpillars Still in Chrysalis / Francio
Guadeloupe and Jordi Halfman  134
5. Sound Management: Listening to Sandals Halcyon in Saint Lucia / Jocelyne
Guilbault   161
Epilogue. The Political Economy of Music and Sound / Percy C. Hintzen  193
References  207
Contributors  227
Index  229