Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad Volume 11

by Timothy Rommen

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250680
• ISBN13: 9780520250680
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"