{"product_id":"island-time-speed-and-the-archipelago-from-st-kitts-and-nevis-chicago-studies-in-ethnomusicology-0226837300","title":"Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226837300\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Baker, Jessica Swanston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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; womens 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51677811704096,"sku":"NEW0226837300","price":34.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/811_ddr9o1L.jpg?v=1779296594","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/island-time-speed-and-the-archipelago-from-st-kitts-and-nevis-chicago-studies-in-ethnomusicology-0226837300","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}