Abstract
Bahamian musical life has been deeply informed and shaped by at least three separate but interrelated themes: 1) the physical interposition of the Bahamas between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; 2) tourism: and 3) the nation's colonial and postcolonial histories. These geographic, economic, and political influences are unthinkable without considering the ways that travel is implicated in each of them. Travel operates at several registers in the Bahamas, including at least physical travels, musical migrations and media flows, mobilities informed by center/periphery dynamics, and journeys related to time and nostalgia. Rake-n-scrape music opens an analytical window onto these spatial, economic, and socio-political registers within the Bahamas. This article thus traces the rake-n-scrape's movement from peripheral, traditional music to popular, urban soundtrack and follows this with an exploration of the politics attendant to the genre's more recent repositioning as roots music.
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