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Dancehall - A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture (Paperback)
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Dancehall - A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture (Paperback)
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Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture contextualizes
the emergence of the globally popular dancehall genre, while
tracing the complex and often contradictory aspects of its
evolution, dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational
essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge analyses of
performance modes and expression, genre development, and impact in
the wider local, regional and international socio-political milieu
of struggles by black Jamaicans in particular and cultural
adherents more broadly. Dancehall is one of eight musical genres
created in Jamaica and, in the past two decades, it has become one
of the most influential Jamaican cultural exports since reggae. The
impact of dancehall extends far beyond Jamaica and is evident in
music genres (such as hip hop, trip hop, jungle, reggaeton, South
African kwaito and Nigerian Afrobeats) and international fashion,
film and dance. This interdisciplinary volume documents various
aspects of dancehall's global impact, evolution and influence in
gender, political economy, geography, ethnomusicology,
spirituality, music production, fashion and language. Each
selection interrogates the range of meanings ascribed to dancehall
culture, a phenomenon which has been seen to be associated with
violence, crime and debauchery. This collection exposes the immense
cultural work towards self-expression and identity in post-colonial
Jamaica which takes shape through dancehall and the contributors
apply a new level of seriousness, depth and academic rigour to
dancehall studies.
General
Imprint: |
University of the West Indies Press
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Country of origin: |
Jamaica |
Release date: |
December 2020 |
Editors: |
Sonjah Stanley Niaah
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 41mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
506 |
ISBN-13: |
978-976-640-750-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
976-640-750-9 |
Barcode: |
9789766407506 |
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