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Global Reggae (Paperback)
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These plenary lectures from the "Global Reggae" conference convened
at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 2008
eloquently exemplify the breadth and depth of current scholarship
on Jamaican popular music. Radiating from the Jamaican centre,
these illuminating essays highlight the "glocalization" of reggae -
its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of
consumption and transformation. The languages of Jamaican popular
music, both literal and metaphorical, are first imitated in pursuit
of an undeniable "originality". Over time, as the music is
indigenized, the Jamaican model loses its authority to varying
degrees. The revolutionary ethos of reggae music is translated into
local languages that articulate the particular politics of new
cultural contexts. Echoes of the Jamaican source gradually fade.
But new hybrid sounds return to their Jamaican origins, engendering
polyvocal, cross-cultural dialogue. From the inter/disciplinary
perspectives of historical sociology, musicology, history, media
studies, literature, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, the
creative/cultural industries and, above all, the metaphorical "life
sciences", the contributors to this definitive volume lucidly
articulate a cultural politics that acknowledges the far-reaching
creativity of small-islanders with ancestral memories of continents
of origin. The globalisation of reggae music and its "wild child"
dancehall is, indeed, an affirmation of the unquantifiable
potential of the Jamaican people to reclaim identities and
establish ties of affiliation that are not circumscribed by the
Caribbean Sea: To the world!
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