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Dancehall : a reader on Jamaican music and culture. edited by Sonjah Stanley Niaah

Stanley-Niaah, Sonjah Nadine 2020

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  • Title:
    Dancehall : a reader on Jamaican music and culture. edited by Sonjah Stanley Niaah
  • Author: Stanley-Niaah, Sonjah Nadine
  • Publisher: Jamaica Barbados Trinidad and Tobago : The University of the West Indies Press, 2020
  • Subjects: Dancehall -- Jamaïque;
    Dancehall -- Aspect social -- Jamaïque;
    Musique populaire -- Jamaïque;
    Ethnomusicologie -- Jamaïque;
    Dancehall (Music) -- History and criticism -- Jamaica;
    Dancehall (Music) -- Social aspects -- Jamaica;
    Popular music -- History and criticism -- Jamaica;
    Jamaica
  • Includes: La ressource est également disponible en plusieurs versions numériques
    Notes bibliographiques, bibliographie et parfois discographie en fin de contribution
  • lds03: Introduction / Sonjah Stanley Niaah Part 1, Early reflections. The development of Jamaican popular music / Garth White. Slackness hiding from culture : erotic play in the dancehall / Carolyn Cooper. Murderation : the question of violence in the sound system dance / Norman C. Stolzoff. Gun talk and girls' talk : the DJ clash / Joseph Pereira Part 2, Negotiation, urban space and experience. Post-nationalist geographies : rasta, ragga and reinventing Africa / Louis Chude-Sokei. An archaeology of dancehall : garrison life at Fort Rocky / Zachary J.M. Beier. Sampling city : Kingston in the social imaginary of Jamaican popular music / Anna Kasafi Perkins. Tommy Lee as "Uncle Demon" : contemporary cultural hybridity in Jamaican dancehall / Robin Clarke. Dancehall political patronage and gun violence : political affiliations and the glorification of gun culture / Dennis Howard
    Part 3, Engagement, spectacle and the language of performance. Video light : dancehall and the aesthetics of spectacular un-visibility in Jamaica / Krista Thompson. "Spar wid me" and other stories of civic engagement in the sound clash arena / Joshua Chamberlain. Death before Dishonour : language and the Jamaican sound system clash / Audene S. Henry Part 4, Sexual politics and aesthetics: Out and bad : toward a queer performance hermeneutic in Jamaican dancehall / Nadia Ellis. Fashion ova style : dancehall's masculine duality / Donna Hope. Ghetto girls/urban music : Jamaican ragga music and female performance / Tracey Shelton. "A uman wi niem!" : sexual desire and the poetics of "badness" in the works of Lady Saw and Tanya Stephens / Agostinho Pinnock
    Part 5, Sound system, riddim and practice. A Caribbean taste of technology : Creolization and the ways of making of the dancehall sound system / Julian Henriques. The riddim method : aesthetics, practice and ownership in Jamaican dancehall / Peter Manuel and Wayne Marshall. "'Sleng Teng' dominate bad, bad" : understanding Jamaica's "computerized" riddim craze / Erin C. MacLeod. Sleng Teng : redefining Jamaica's digital riddims / Ray Hitchins Part 6, Ritual, celebration, space. Ritual and community in dancehall performance / Sonjah Stanley Niaah. Egúngún in disguise : the Jamaican Nine Night ceremony / Lena Delgado de Torres. Representations of "obeah" and "bad-mind" in contemporary Jamaican dancehall / Kate Lawton
    Part 7, Adornment, embodiment and style. Fabricating identities : survival and the imagination in Jamaican dancehall culture / Bibi Bakare-Yusuf. Dancehall bodies : performing in/securities / "H" Patten. Born in Chanel, christen in Gucci : the rhetoric of brand names and haute couture in Jamaican dancehall / Andrea Shaw Nevins Part 8, The dancehall transnation. Music and orality : authenticity in Japanese sound system culture / Marvin D. Sterling. Zimdancehall : Jamaican music in a transatlantic and African perspective / Andrea Hollington. Black music, popular culture and existential capital : the relationship between appropriation and originality / Bruno Barboza Muniz. White faces in intimate spaces : Jamaican popular music in global circulation / Larisa Kingston Mann Part 9, Tribute to Bogle. "Bogle ah di order fi di day" : dance and identity in Jamaican dancehall / Sonjah Stanley Niaah
  • Language: English
  • Creation Date: 2020
  • Identifier: 978-976-640-750-6
  • Format: 1 volume (XI-493 pages) : illustrations, couverture illustrée en noir et en couleurs ; 26 cm
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