Funky Nassau: Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music

This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty—first centuries, in particular rake—n—scrape and Junkanoo, Rommen finds a Bah...