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Professor Jocelyne Guilbault is a renowned scholar in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on theory and method in popular music studies, the politics of aesthetics, and power relations in music production and circulation. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Caribbean, particularly in French Creole and English-speaking islands, exploring traditional and popular music. Her key publications include Zouk: World Music in the West Indies (1993) and Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics (2007). She is affiliated with the university and currently on Academic Personnel Leave.
Her research interests span Caribbean music cultures, cultural politics, and the interplay between music, identity, and globalization. She has written extensively on genres like zouk, calypso, and soca, analyzing their roles in socio-political contexts. Her work critiques how music industries and global labels shape local cultural expressions.
Her recent articles (2010-2021) emphasize themes like carnival music’s sociopolitical impact, the cultural work of party music in Trinidad, and the entanglements of nation-building and diaspora through music. Despite no listed awards, her contributions to ethnomusicology and Caribbean studies are widely recognized.
Guilbault’s academic presence includes office hours at 660 Social Sciences Building and contact via guilbault@berkeley.edu. Her work bridges ethnographic rigor with critical theory, offering insights into how music reflects and challenges power structures in the Caribbean and beyond.
