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Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music
to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to
religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular
music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicated music's
place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican
Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities.
Melvin Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its
impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the
concept of flow, Butler's ethnography evokes both the experience of
Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the
controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between
Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of
religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music's vital
place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while
striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their
evolving tradition.Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the
many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create
a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.
Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music
to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to
religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular
music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicated music's
place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican
Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities.
Melvin Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its
impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the
concept of flow, Butler's ethnography evokes both the experience of
Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the
controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between
Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of
religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music's vital
place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while
striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their
evolving tradition.Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the
many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create
a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.
In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the
evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing and
displaced, transnational space. It considers the imagined community
in the islands as its psycho-social homeland, while simultaneously
pursuing different cultural strategies of redefining and resisting
colonial 'homeland' conventions (which Kamau Brathwaite
appropriately termed the 'inner plantation'). Thus, the
Trans-Caribbean is suspended in a double-dialectic, which opposes
both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the
romanticized, yet colonialized, 'inner plantation, ' whose
transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an
illusion. Given this, cultural production and migration remain at
the vortex of the Trans-Caribbean. The construction of cultural
products in the Trans-Caribbean understood as a collection of
social and new migratory practices both reflects and contests
post-colonial metropolitan hegemonies. Following Arjun Appadurai's
distinction, these homogenizing and heterogenizing counter-trends
in Trans-Cariabbean spaces can be observed through cultural
transactions manifesting themselves as ethnoscapes, mediascapes,
technoscapes, financescapes, cityscapes, ideoscapes, etc. For the
purposes of this book the editors invited anthropologists,
sociologists, political scientists, linguists, liberal arts and
gender studies specialists, as well as cultural and literary
historians to begin drawing some of the diasporic trajectories on
the huge canvas of cultural production throughout the
Trans-Caribbean.Constructing Vernacular Culture in the
Trans-Caribbean will find its audience among scholars in cultural
studies, migration, literary theory, and cultural criticism who
have a special interest in Caribbean and Latin American Studies, as
well as among students and scholars of migration and
postcolonialism and postmodernity in general."
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