{"product_id":"governing-sound-the-cultural-politics-of-trinidads-carnival-musics-chicago-studies-in-ethnomusicology-9780226310602","title":"Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalypso music is an integral part of Trinidads 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 as a field of cultural politics in Trinidad. The prominence of calypso  Guilbault argues  is uniquely enmeshed in projects of governing and in competing imaginations of nation  race  and diaspora. During the colonial regime  the period of national independence  and recent decades of neoliberal transformation  calypso and its musical offshoots have enabled new cultural formations while simultaneously excluding specific social expressions  political articulations  and artistic traditions. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic work  Guilbault maps the musical journeys of Trinidads most prominent musicians and arrangers and explains the distinct ways their musical sensibilities became audibly entangled with modes of governing  audience demands  and market incentives.  Generously illustrated and complete with an accompanying CD  Governing Sound constitutes the most comprehensive study to date of Trinidads carnival musics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118105583669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226310604","price":31.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226310602.jpg?v=1781697045","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/governing-sound-the-cultural-politics-of-trinidads-carnival-musics-chicago-studies-in-ethnomusicology-9780226310602","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}