Governing sound : the cultural politics of Trinidad's Carnival musics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Guilbault, Jocelyne
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Series:	Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Subjects:	Calypso (Music) > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History and criticism. Carnival > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History. Calypso (Music) > Social aspects > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad. Calypso (Music) > Political aspects > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad.

Table of Contents:

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.