The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture

The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9780230610132
ISBN-13 : 0230610137
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture by : C. Best

Download or read book The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture written by C. Best and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines.

Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean

Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0739121618
ISBN-13 : 9780739121610
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean by : Holger Henke

Download or read book Constructing Vernacular Culture in the Trans-Caribbean written by Holger Henke and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing, and displaced transnational space. The Trans-Caribbean is therefore understood as a space suspended in a double dialectic, which opposes both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the romanticized, yet colonialized, "inner plantation" (Kamau Brathwaite), whose transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an illusion.

The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados

The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780810877504
ISBN-13 : 0810877503
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados by : Curwen Best

Download or read book The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados written by Curwen Best and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the 20th century, the Caribbean island of Barbados emerged as a key player in the creation and nurturing of Caribbean popular music. And, yet, despite its vital role in the popularization of tuk music, the rise of spouge, and the Barbadian contribution to and transformation of other Carribean music traditions, there is still relatively little sustained critical literature that discusses the various strands of the island’s music culture. Curwen Best’s The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados provides this long overdue survey of the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively, each of which marked the ushering in of new opportunities and challenges to the creation and dissemination of Barbadian popular music. His study considers the telling roles played by the expanding influence of western popular culture, the Internet, post-dancehall and post-soca aesthetics, cyberculture, digital culture, and the subterranean lure of traditional culture. Readers will find especially compelling Best’s analyses of selected artists, musical genres, and phenomena, such as Gabby, Rihanna, Jackie Opel, Alison Hinds, Rupee, Red Plastic Bag, Lil’ Rick, spouge, tuk, ringbang, gospel, dub/dancehall, calypso, soca, folk, alternative, hip hop, Crop Over, Jazz Festival, National Independence Festival of Creative Arts, BajanTube, party politics and entertainment, popular bands, music technology, the Internet and new frontiers of cultural expression. This book will be of significant interest to scholars, students and all those curious about Caribbean popular culture, the popular music of Barbados, and the impact of emerging technologies on cultural development in a small island state.

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 690
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ISBN-10 : 9781136821745
ISBN-13 : 1136821740
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature by : Michael A. Bucknor

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Michael A. Bucknor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions

The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 569
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ISBN-10 : 9780190916961
ISBN-13 : 0190916966
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions by : Michelle A. Gonzalez

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions written by Michelle A. Gonzalez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Religions offers a comprehensive overview of Caribbean religions. The Caribbean is a microcosm of the world's religions, but the small geographic space resulted in the encounter of global religions and indigenous religious practices. The racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of this region makes brief introductions to Caribbean religions incapable of truly addressing its complex and diverse religious landscape. The Handbook also elaborates on the diversity of the religious traditions and the national particularity of the region while also considering multiple geographic settings. It mentions how often Caribbean religion is studied through the perspective of a discrete religious tradition or geographic setting"--

In Plenty and in Time of Need

In Plenty and in Time of Need
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781978803947
ISBN-13 : 197880394X
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis In Plenty and in Time of Need by : Lia T. Bascomb

Download or read book In Plenty and in Time of Need written by Lia T. Bascomb and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Plenty and in Time of Need uses music and performance as sites of analysis for the competing ideals and realities of Barbadian national culture. The book demonstrates complex relations between national, gendered, and sexual identities in Barbados, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage.

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1
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Publisher : Caribbean Literature in Transi
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9781108475884
ISBN-13 : 1108475884
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Book Synopsis Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 by : Evelyn O'Callaghan

Download or read book Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1 written by Evelyn O'Callaghan and published by Caribbean Literature in Transi. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800-1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.