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Noises in the Blood - Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed) Loot Price: R787
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Noises in the Blood - Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed): Carolyn Cooper

Noises in the Blood - Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)

Carolyn Cooper

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The language of Jamaican popular culture-its folklore, idioms, music, poetry, song-even when written is based on a tradition of sound, an orality that has often been denigrated as not worthy of serious study. In Noises in the Blood, Carolyn Cooper critically examines the dismissed discourse of Jamaica's vibrant popular culture and reclaims these cultural forms, both oral and textual, from an undeserved neglect. Cooper's exploration of Jamaican popular culture covers a wide range of topics, including Bob Marley's lyrics, the performance poetry of Louise Bennett, Mikey Smith, and Jean Binta Breeze, Michael Thelwell's novelization of The Harder They Come, the Sistren Theater Collective's Lionheart Gal, and the vitality of the Jamaican DJ culture. Her analysis of this cultural "noise" conveys the powerful and evocative content of these writers and performers and emphasizes their contribution to an undervalued Caribbean identity. Making the connection between this orality, the feminized Jamaican "mother tongue," and the characterization of this culture as low or coarse or vulgar, she incorporates issues of gender into her postcolonial perspective. Cooper powerfully argues that these contemporary vernacular forms must be recognized as genuine expressions of Jamaican culture and as expressions of resistance to marginalization, racism, and sexism. With its focus on the continuum of oral/textual performance in Jamaican culture, Noises in the Blood, vividly and stylishly written, offers a distinctive approach to Caribbean cultural studies.

General

Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 1995
First published: February 1995
Authors: Carolyn Cooper
Dimensions: 222 x 146 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 232
Edition: 1st U.S. ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1595-7
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN: 0-8223-1595-5
Barcode: 9780822315957

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