The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean

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Martin Munro (Winthrop-King Professor of French, Winthrop-King Professor of French, Florida State University)

The Music of the Future

Sound and Vision in the Caribbean

Martin Munro (Winthrop-King Professor of French, Winthrop-King Professor of French, Florida State University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
02 October 2024

Art of indigenous peoples; Music

Series: Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound

In this book, author Martin Munro offers a new path into Caribbean studies based on sound. He argues that to understand and begin to transform the past, present, and future of Caribbean studies, historians must do so at the node of both sound and vision. The book makes a compelling case for a broad realignment of Caribbean studies with particular emphasis on the sonic dimensions of Caribbean art, literature, travel writing, history, and society. From there, the book illustrates how sound and vision are closely connected in the Caribbean, to the point where they almost fuse into another, hybrid sense in which might be found the knotty truths and realities of the region, its people, and its relations with others.

Munro creates a mode of analyzing and understanding the multiple dialogues between visuality and aurality in relation to race, art, tourism, media, and literature. Crossing national and linguistic borders, he presents the Caribbean as a region and, working across media, he offers an expansive exploration of visuality and sound. The book's primary materials are varied--poems, novels, travel writing, amateur films, tourist movies, music, visual art--but united by the presence of the European-Caribbean, sound-vision dynamic that shapes so many accounts of cultural encounter in the region. The book traces this dynamic across the materials to give a sense of how it reappears in different times and places to become a defining element of European-Caribbean cultural and social relations and of how and why sound in its myriad manifestations becomes such a prevalent marker of Caribbean being, culture, and society.

By: Martin Munro (Winthrop-King Professor of French Winthrop-King Professor of French Florida State University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 472g
ISBN: 9780197759790
ISBN 10: 0197759793
Series: Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 02 October 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Trinidad. His publications include Writing on the Fault Line: Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010 (Liverpool University Press, 2014), Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times (Liverpool University Press, 2015), and Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race (Liverpool University Press, 2022). He is Director of the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State.