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

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

Baker, Jessica Swanston

Paperback

Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Caribbean HistoryAnthropologyWorld Music

ISBN10: 0226837300
ISBN13: 9780226837307
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 16 2024
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
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.

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