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