Sugar, Sound, Speed: “Area Code 869” and Sonic Fiction

Jessica Swanston Baker is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago, where she teaches and researches in the fields of Caribbean music and archipelagic and critical Caribbean studies, as well as in theories of the postcolonial, race, and sexuality. Her current book project, Island Time: Speed, Music, and Modernity in St. Kitts and Nevis, is an ethnographic and historical examination of changing conceptions of temporality as understood through the sonic worlds of postcolonial youth in the eastern Caribbean twin-island nation St. Kitts and Nevis.