Mek Some Noise
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ethics of style
ethnography
full gospel community
gospel
gospel dancehall
gospel music
gospelypso
jamoo
jehovahs music
memory
music
music studies
musical styles
nationalism
north american gospel music
questions of identity
regionalism
religious music
spiritual music
spirituality
transnational
trinidad
trinidad and tobago
trinidadian gospel music
Product details
- ISBN 9780520250680
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Mek Some Noise", Timothy Rommen's ethnographic study of Trinidadian gospel music, engages the multiple musical styles circulating in the nation's Full Gospel community and illustrates the carefully negotiated and contested spaces that they occupy in relationship to questions of identity. By exploring gospelypso, jamoo ('Jehovah's music'), gospel dancehall, and North American gospel music, along with the discourses that surround performances in these styles, he illustrates the extent to which value, meaning, and appropriateness are continually circumscribed and reinterpreted in the process of coming to terms with what it looks and sounds like to be a Full Gospel believer in Trinidad. The local, regional, and transnational implications of these musical styles, moreover, are read in relationship to their impact on belief (and vice versa), revealing the particularly nuanced poetics of conviction that drive both apologists and detractors of these styles.
Rommen sets his investigation against a concisely drawn, richly historical narrative and introduces a theoretical approach which he calls the 'ethics of style' - a model that privileges the convictions embedded in this context and that emphasizes their role in shaping the terms upon which identity is continually being constructed in Trinidad. The result is an extended meditation on the convictions that lie behind the creation and reception of style in Full Gospel Trinidad.
Timothy Rommen is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania.
