
Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture
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English
ISBN
9789766407520
Sound Culture Series
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Acknowledgementsand Permissions
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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