Contact Languages and Music
- Editor: Farquharson, Joseph T
- Editor: Hollington, Andrea
- Editor: Jones, Byron M
Book
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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