Description
Book SynopsisLanguage and music are connected in many ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to express distinct and complex identities, attitudes, ideologies, social roles and political views. Spaces characterized by migration, contact, multilingualism, and colonial inequalities, are particularly interesting for the study of the intersections between language and music.
This volume is the first book-length account of contact languages and music. It offers a stimulating collection of contributions on different territories, multiple musical genres and topics, and various methodological approaches. The chapters address myriad topics such as nationality, ethnicity, identity, gender, migration and diaspora.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1 Language, Music and Identity
- 2. Discoursing the State of a Caribbean Nation
- 3. “Dennery Segment ka mennen”: Exploring the Dominance of Creole Languages in St Lucian Popular Music
- 4. Singing in Creole or Portuguese?: Santomean Musical Manifestations
- 5. Wi Ful a Patan: A Quantitative Approach to Language Use in Jamaican Popular Music
- 6. Styling through Rhyming: Gender and Vowel Variation in Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics
- 7. Language Use in Peter Ram’s Soca Performances
- 8. Singing the King’s Creole: The (Ethno)Linguistic Repertoire of Clifton Chenier
- Part 2 Translocal Perspectives
- 9. Rap Kriolu Revisited: From the Transnational Diaspora to Cape Verde and Back
- 10. Authentic Crossing?: Jamaican Creole in African Dancehall
- 11. Jamaican in Transatlantic Contact Spaces: Linguistic Practices in African Reggae, Dancehall and Other Popular Musics
- 12. Jamaric Reggae: Jamaican Speech Forms in Contemporary Ethiopian Reggae Music
- 13. Caribbean Identity in Pop Music: Rihanna’s and Nicki Minaj’s Multivocal Pop Personas
- List of Contributors
- Index
