The University of the West Indies Press
Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture
Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture
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Dancehall is one of eight musical genres created in Jamaica and, in the past two decades, it has become one of the most influential Jamaican cultural exports since reggae. The impact of dancehall extends far beyond Jamaica and is evident in music genres (such as hip hop, trip hop, jungle, reggaeton, South African kwaito and Nigerian Afrobeats) and international fashion, film and dance.

This interdisciplinary volume documents various aspects of dancehall’s global impact, evolution and influence in gender, political economy, geography, ethnomusicology, spirituality, music production, fashion and language. Each selection interrogates the range of meanings ascribed to dancehall culture, a phenomenon which has been seen to be associated with violence, crime and debauchery. This collection exposes the immense cultural work towards self-expression and identity in post-colonial Jamaica which takes shape through dancehall and the contributors apply a new level of seriousness, depth and academic rigour to dancehall studies.

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English
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9789766407520
Sound Culture Series
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Introduction / Niaah
PART 1. EARLY REFLECTIONS
1. The Development of JamaicanPopular Music / White
2. Slackness Hiding from Culture / Cooper
3. Murderation / Stolzoff
4. Gun Talk and Girls’ Talk / Pereira
PART 2. NEGOTIATION, URBAN SPACE AND EXPERIENCE
5. Post-Nationalist Geographies / Chude-Sokei
6. An Archaeology of Dancehall / Beier
7. Sampling City / Perkins
8. Tommy Lee as “Uncle Demon” / Clarke
9. Dancehall Political Patronage and Gun Violence / Howard
PART 3. ENGAGEMENT, SPECTACLE AND THE LANGUAGE OF PERFORMANCE
10. Video Light / Thompson
11. “Spar wid Me” and Other Stories of Civic Engagement in the Sound Clash Arena / Chamberlain
12. Death before Dishonour / Henry
PART 4. SEXUAL POLITICS AND AESTHETICS
PART 5. SOUND SYSTEM, RIDDIM AND PRACTICE
17. A Caribbean Taste of Technology / Henriques
18. The Riddim Method / Manuel and Marshall
19. “ ‘Sleng Teng’ Dominate Bad, Bad” / MacLeod
20. Sleng Teng / Hitchins
13. Out and Bad / Ellis
14. Fashion Ova Style / Hope
15. Ghetto Girls/Urban Music / Skelton
16. “A Uman Wi Niem!” / Pinnock
PART 6. RITUAL, CELEBRATION, SPACE
21. Ritual and Community in Dancehall Performance / Stanley Niaah
22. Egúngún in Disguise / De Torres
23. Representations of “Obeah” and “Bad-Mind” in Contemporary Jamaican Dancehall / Lawton
PART 7. ADORNMENT, EMBODIMENT AND STYLE
24. Fabricating Identities / Bakare-Yusuf
25. Dancehall Bodies / Patten
26. “Born in Chanel, Christen in Gucci” / Shaw Nevins
PART 8. THE DANCEHALL TRANSNATION
27. Music and Orality / Sterling
28. Zimdancehall / Hollington
29. Black Music, Popular Cultureand Existential Capital / Muniz
30. White Faces in Intimate Spaces / Mann
PART 9. TRIBUTE TO BOGLE
31. “Bogle ah di Order fi di Day" / Stanley Niaah
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