Sound Clash Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

Name: Sound Clash Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large
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ISBN: 9781403964250

ISBN-10: 1403964254

ISBN-13: 9781403964250

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Carolyn Cooper, Cooper Carolyn

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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…

Book details

List price: $125.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 9/15/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



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