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"Mek Some Noise", Timothy Rommen's highly personal ethnographic study of Caribbean gospel music, engages the musical world of contemporary Christians in Trinidad and Tobago at the nexus where music and religion meet. In Trinidad and Tobago the Full Gospel Pentecostal churches are negotiating a wide range of musical styles, many of which are more closely associated in the minds of outsiders with dance halls and the revels of carnival than with worship. Rommen focuses on four main styles: gospelypso, North American gospel, dancehall, and jamoo ("Jehovah's music"). He explores the powerful role that music plays in the lives of Full Gospel believers and the way in which music helps to convince and to actualize belief.
Rommen sets his investigation against a concisely drawn, richly historical narrative. He writes about music and its power to persuade, but he also gives deep consideration to the fact of people making music in order to say something. Using a wealth of materials previously ignored by scholars, Rommen arrives at a new theoretical approach which he calls the ethics of style, and which situates this group of believers both in their faith and in a Trinidadian context. The result is an extended meditation on the convictions, or ethical concerns, that lie behind the creation and reception of style in Full Gospel Trinidad.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Gospel music -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Trinidad -- History and criticism.