Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis by Baker, Jessica Swanston

Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis

A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and...
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Author: Jessica Swanston Baker
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Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis by Baker, Jessica Swanston

Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis

$95.22

Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis

$95.22
Author: Jessica Swanston Baker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode of relation in the postcolonial Caribbean.

In Island Time, ethnomusicologist Jessica Swanston Baker examines wylers, a musical form from St. Kitts and Nevis that is characterized by speed. Baker argues that this speed becomes a useful and highly subjective metric for measuring the relationship between Caribbean aspirations and the promises of economic modernity; women's bodily autonomy and the nationalist fantasies that would seek to curb that autonomy; and the material realities of Kittitian-Nevisian youth living in the disillusionment following postcolonial independence. She traces the wider Caribbean musical, cultural, and media-based resonances of wylers, posing an alternative model to scholarship on Caribbean music that has tended to privilege the big islands--Trinidad, Jamaica, and Haiti--thus neglecting not only the unique cultural worlds of smaller nations but also the unbounded nature of musical exchange in the region. The archipelago emerges as a useful model for apprehending the relationality across scales that governs the temporal and spatial logics that undergird Caribbean performance. The archipelago and its speeds ultimately emerge as a meaningful medium for postcolonial, postmodern world-making.


Author: Jessica Swanston Baker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 10/16/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780226837307

About the Author
Jessica Swanston Baker is assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago.

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