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Wake the Town and Tell the People - Dancehall Culture in Jamaica (Paperback)
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Wake the Town and Tell the People - Dancehall Culture in Jamaica (Paperback)
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Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and
influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global
music. "Wake the Town and Tell the People" presents, for the first
time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this musical and
cultural phenomenon: its growth and historical role within Jamaican
society, its economy of star making, its technology of production,
its performative practices, and its capacity to channel political
beliefs through popular culture in ways that are urgent, tangible,
and lasting.
Norman C. Stolzoff brings a fan's enthusiasm to his broad
perspective on dancehall, providing extensive interviews, original
photographs, and anthropological analysis from eighteen months of
fieldwork in Kingston. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular
musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not
only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion
but also between different factions struggling to gain control of
the island nation's political culture. Dancehall culture thus
remains a key arena where the future of this volatile nation is
shaped. As his argument unfolds, Stolzoff traces the history of
Jamaican music from its roots in the late eighteenth century to
1945, from the addition of sound systems and technology during the
mid-forties to early sixties, and finally through the
post-independence years from the early sixties to the
present.
"Wake the Town and Tell the People" offers a general introduction
for those interested in dancehall music and culture. For the fan or
musicologist, it will serve as a comprehensive reference book.
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