Dancehall

Author : Stuart Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916359833

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Dancehall: the Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture by Stuart Baker Pdf

The acclaimed, definitive and essential guide to 1980s Jamaican Dancehall--featuring hundreds of photographs with interviews and biographies This widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle. With unprecedented access to the incredibly vibrant music scene during this period, Beth Lesser's photographs are a unique way into a previously hidden part of Jamaican culture. Born in the 1950s out of the neighborhood sound systems of Kingston, Dancehall grew to its height in the 1980s before a massive influx of drugs and guns made the scene too dangerous for many. Dancehall is a culture that encompasses music, fashion, drugs, guns, art, community, technology and more. Many of today's music and fashion styles can be traced back to Dancehall culture and continue to be influenced by it today. Dancehall is an essential reference book for anyone interested in reggae, as well as a unique photographic and textual sourcebook of the musical, cultural and political life of Jamaica. In the early 1980s, as Jamaica was in the throes of political and gang violence, Beth Lesser ventured where few other dared, documenting the producers, singers, DJs and sound systems who all made a living out of the slums of Kingston. This book is a thrilling record of the exciting, dangerous and vibrant world of Dancehall.

Author : Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780776619057

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Dancehall by Sonjah Nadine Stanley-Niaah Pdf

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance. Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston's ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall's migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic's geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.

Author : Patricia Noxolo,'H' Patten,Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000550337

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Dancehall In/Securities by Patricia Noxolo,'H' Patten,Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah Pdf

This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security. This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security and dancehall. Scholars from the University of the West Indies' Institute of Caribbean Studies and Reggae Studies Unit, as well as independent dancehall and dance practitioners from Kingston, and writers from the UK, US and continental Europe offer their differently situated perspectives on dancehall, its histories, spatial patterning, professional status and aesthetics. The study brings together critical security studies with dancehall studies and will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre, dance and performance studies, sociology, cultural geography, anthropology, postcolonial studies, diaspora studies, musicology and gender studies.

Author : 'H' Patten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000546422

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Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance by 'H' Patten Pdf

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.

Author : Owen Joseph
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781468903478

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Jamaican Dancehall by Owen Joseph Pdf

Author : Bernard F. Conners
Publisher : British American Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0945167512

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Dancehall by Bernard F. Conners Pdf

On June 4, 1982, the body of a young woman surfaced from 300 feet of water in Lake Placid, New York. Because of the depth and intense cold of the water, the body which was determined by medical examiners to have been submerged for over twenty years, was remarkably well-preserved. At the time, the authorities were unable to establish the identity of the woman but concluded that her death had been violent.

Author : C. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982605

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Sound Clash by C. Cooper Pdf

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 dismissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture, Cooper offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B and Apache Indian. Cooper also demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise,' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes which characterize Jamaican society, and analyzes the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.

Author : Joan Haggerty
Publisher : Mother Tongue Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Bowen Island (B.C.)
ISBN : 1896949541

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The Dancehall Years by Joan Haggerty Pdf

"This enriching, complex family saga and interracial drama brims with beautiful writing. It begins one summer on Bowen Island during the Depression and moves through Pearl Harbour and the evacuation of the Japanese and into the 1970s. Gwen Killam is a child on Bowen whose idyllic summers are obliterated by the outbreak of the war. Her swimming teacher, Takumi Yoshito, disappears along with his parents who are famous for their devotion to the Bowen Inn gardens. The Lower Mainland is in blackout, and so is the future of Gwen’s beloved Aunt Isabelle who must make an unthinkable sacrifice. The Bowen Island dancehall is well-known during the war as a moonlight cruise destination and it becomes an emotional landmark for time passing and remembered."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Susanne Muehleisen,Bettina Migge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902724894X

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Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles by Susanne Muehleisen,Bettina Migge Pdf

Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles is the first collection to focus on socio-pragmatic issues in the Caribbean context, including the socio-cultural rules and principles underlying strategic language use. While the Caribbean has long been recognized as a rich and interesting site where cultural continuities meet with new "creolized" or innovative practices, questions of politeness practices, constructions of personhood, or the notion of face have so far been neglected in linguistic research on Caribbean Creoles. Drawing on linguistic politeness theory and Goffman's concept of face, eleven mostly fieldwork-based innovative contributions critically examine a range of topics, such as ritual insults, strategic use of "bad language", kiss-teeth, the performance of homophobic threats, greetings, address forms, advice-giving, socialization and discourse, parent-child discourse, register choice and communicative repertoire in the Caribbean context.

Author : Norman C. Stolzoff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0822325144

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Wake the Town & Tell the People by Norman C. Stolzoff Pdf

An ethnography of Dancehall, the dominant form of reggae music in Jamica since the early 1960s.

Author : Timothy Rommen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520250672

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"Mek Some Noise" by Timothy Rommen Pdf

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Author : Nick Cannon
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250113252

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King of the Dancehall by Nick Cannon Pdf

From Nick Cannon comes an exhilarating coming of age and tumultuous love story of Tarzan Brixton that spans from the projects of Brooklyn to the shores of Jamaica. After being released from a 5 year prison sentence for an armed robbery gone sideways, he makes a vow to his dying mother to change his ways. With his mother’s medical bills piling up, the temptation of the criminal life becomes too real once again. His solution is to escape the rough streets of New York for the equally ruthless beaches of Kingston, Jamaica. He soon creates a drug running empire while falling in love with a beautiful Jamaican woman named Maya. It’s through Maya that Tarzan becomes captivated by the music, dance, and lifestyle of Jamaican Dancehall culture, which ultimately lifts him towards the path of righteousness.

Author : L. Kay Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028488208

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Dancehall Ladies by L. Kay Gillespie Pdf

In 1998, a mere six months after the publication of the first edition of Dancehall Ladies, two more women were executed, adding to the previous total of 37 females executed by the United States. This revised edition includes their story, along with updated statistics. The book, filled with photographs that put faces with the statistics of capital punishment, examines the history of executed women in the United States. As the 20th century concludes, Dancehall Ladies provides powerful insight into America's dealings with women criminals in the past hundred years. It will certainly influence debate on the topic well into the new century.

Author : Donna P. Hope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063297322

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Inna Di Dancehall by Donna P. Hope Pdf

This work provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society. Hope gives the reader an unmatched insider's view and explanation of power, violence and gender relations in Jamaica as seen through the prism of the dancehall.

Author : Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780776619040

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DanceHall by Sonjah Stanley Niaah Pdf

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance. Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston’s ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall’s migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic’s geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.