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In Plenty and in Time of Need: Popular Culture and the Remapping of Barbadian Identity: Critical Caribbean Studies

Autor Lia T. Bascomb
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2019 – vârsta ani
In Plenty and in Time of Need demonstrates how the unique history of Barbados has contributed to complex relations of national, gendered, and sexual identities, and how these identities are represented and interpreted on a global stage. As the most widespread manifestation of social commentary, the book uses music and performance to analyze the competing ideals and realities of the national culture. It details the histories of prominent musical artists, including the prolific Pan-Africanist calypsonian the Mighty Gabby, the world-renowned Merrymen, Soca Queen Alison Hinds, artist/activist Rupee, and international superstar Rihanna. Using these artists, the project analyzes how femininity, masculinity, and sexuality are put in service of Barbadian nationalism. By examining websites, blogs, and digital products of these artists in conversation with Barbadian tourism, the book re-examines the ways in which commodity, sexuality, gender performance, and diasporic consciousness undergird individual careers and national representations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978803947
ISBN-10: 197880394X
Pagini: 306
Ilustrații: 17 b-w
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Critical Caribbean Studies


Notă biografică

Lia T. Bascomb is an assistant professor of African American Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Cuprins

List of Images
Introduction                                                
1          England’s Child, the People’s Nation: Myths of Barbadian National Identity
2          Performing National Identity                                                                               
3          Caribbean Queen: Afro-Barbadian Femininity, Alison Hinds, and Performing of the Erotic at Home and Abroad                                               
4          “Love You All”: Rupee, Afro-Barbadian Masculinity, Activism, and the Temptations of a Global Pop Market                                                                   
5          Rihanna, Where Celebrity and Tourism Meet in a Dangerous Crossroads of Representation         
Conclusion: Celebrating Barbadian Independence, the Golden Jubilee                         
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited                                                                                                                   
Index

Recenzii

“A refreshingly vital work! As Barbados flexes its stance, situating itself in the contemporary world, Lia T. Bascomb provides one of the most engaging and enlightening published discussions on the meanings of this process. In Plenty and in Time of Need will be a go-to text for many years.”

“Lia Bascomb’s In Plenty and In Time of Need is a necessary and powerful remix of performance studies, diaspora studies, studies of the nation, studies of migration and popular culture. Her remixes of critical theory, Caribbean intellectual traditions, discourses of the nation, post-independence and postcolonial conditions, along with gender and sexuality provide a powerful account of contemporary Black diasporic connection and performativity located in the geopolitics of Barbados but exceeding the geography of that place to reorient our thinking on the global flows of people, cultures and power.”

"This text is a well-conceived and articulated discussion of the ways in which history intertwine with contemporary cultural performances to construct a national identity. For Bascomb, this exchange takes place in a political arena where not only the personal is political but the political is often symbolic and immaterial."

Descriere

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.