Jocelyne Guilbault
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212 Morrison Hall
Phone: (510) 642-2687
Fax: (510) 642-8480
Email: guilbault@berkeley.edu
SPECIALIZATION: Ethnomusicology, Caribbean, popular and traditional musics, creolization, power, cultural politics, nationalism, diaspora.
DESCRIPTION: For the past decade, my work has focused on the cultural politics of carnival musics in Trinidad and its diasporic networks. Through extensive fieldwork with artists, cultural entrepreneurs, and policy makers, I have examined calypso and soca's musical practices in relation to technologies of governing. As in my previous work on zouk in the French-Creole speaking Caribbean, my current research emphasizes the audible entanglements of power relations and popular musics. In all my projects, my research has concentrated on the politics of aesthetics in relation to the construction of national subjects and subjectivities.
PUBLICATIONS: Zouk: World Music in the West Indies (1993), Border Crossings: New Directions in Music Studies, special issue in Repercussions (co-editor with J. Shepherd and M. Dineen, 2000), book chapters in Music and the Racial Imagination, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock, Popular Music Studies, Culture in Action: Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean Popular Culture & Globalization, and articles in Ethnomusicology, Small Axe, Criterios, Cultural Studies, Popular Music, Black Music Research Journal, Canadian University Music Review, The World of Music, Studies in Third World Societies.