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Sound clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large
Author
Title
Sound clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large / Carolyn Cooper.
ISBN
9781403982605
1403982600
1281369322
9781281369321
9781403964250
1403964254
9781403964243
1403964246
1403982600
1403964254
1403964246
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource. (ix, 348 pages) : illustrations
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Summary
Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B, Apache Indian. She demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise, ' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes that characterise Jamaican society. Cooper also analyses the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.
Variant and related titles
Palgrave social & cultural studies collection 2003-2004.
Other formats
Print version: Cooper, Carolyn, 1950- Sound clash. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-328) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Word, Sound & Power
Border Clash: Sites of Contestation
Slackness Personified: Representations of Female Sexuality in the Lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks
Lady Saw Cuts Loose: Female Fertility Rituals in the Dancehall
'Mama, is That You?': Erotic Disguise in the Films Dancehall Queen and Babymother
'Lyrical Gun': Metaphor and Role-Play in Dancehall Culture
'More Fire': Chanting Down Babylon from Bob Marley to Capleton
'Vile Vocals': Exporting Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics to Barbados
Hip-Hopping Across Cultures: Reggae to Rap and Back
Mix up the Indian with all the Patwa: Rajamuffin Sounds in Cool Britannia
The Dancehall Transnation: Language, Literature and Global Jamaica.
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