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King Yellowman - Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,457
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King Yellowman - Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Paperback): Brent Hagerman

King Yellowman - Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture (Paperback)

Brent Hagerman

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Jamaican deejay Yellowman divided a country with his bawdy songs and his very body: he has been wildly popular among dancehall fans, yet widely despised by polite society. Even though his contribution to Jamaican musical culture is immense, scholars have ignored him and reggae histories have largely misunderstood him. King Yellowman: Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture is the first serious study of one Jamaica's most significant artists and dancehall's first major international star. It is a critical biography designed to satisfy fans while furthering academic discourse on dancehall by offering a new perspective on the way Yellowman negotiates the slackness/culture binary in Jamaican music. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, Brent Hagerman begins with the compelling story of Winston Foster's early life as an abandoned ghetto outcast and his hard-fought journey to become the King of Dancehall, then goes on to a critical exploration of the marginalization of people with albinism in Jamaica and the use of slackness in Caribbean music. Through slackness and his mobilization of Rastafarian symbols, Yellowman subverts embedded Jamaican cultural notions of sexuality, gender, and race to overcome his cultural displacement, promote his yellow body as sexually appealing and forge a place for himself among the Jamaican body politic.

General

Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
Country of origin: Jamaica
Release date: September 2021
Authors: Brent Hagerman
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 978-976-640-851-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Reggae
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Reggae
Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN: 976-640-851-3
Barcode: 9789766408510

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