Buyers Beware - Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Paperback)

Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the Caribbean from "less respectable" segments of popular culture such as dancehall culture and 'sistah lit' that proudly jettison any aspirations toward middle-class respectability. Treating these pop cultural texts and phenomena with the same critical attention as dominant mass cultural representations of the region allows Patricia Joan Saunders to read them against the grain and consider whether and how their "pulp" preoccupation with contemporary fashion, music, sex, fast food, and television, is instructive for how race, class, gender, sexuality and national politics are constructed, performed, interpreted, disseminated and consumed from within the Caribbean.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Caribbean Studies
Release date:	May 2022
Authors:	Patricia Joan Saunders
Dimensions:	235 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-7122-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Reggae Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Music > Contemporary popular music > Rock & pop > Reggae Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General
LSN:	0-8135-7122-7
Barcode:	9780813571225

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