Research Catalog

Title

ReggaeStories : Jamaican musical legends and cultural legacies / edited by Donna P. Hope.

Publication

• Kingston, Jamaica : The University of West Indies Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

Hope, Donna P.

Description

viii, 149 pages : illustrations, maps, music; 23 cm

Summary

"ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary intellectual contributions in Jamaican reggae to trace Jamaican popular music in new geographical locales and then returns home to contemporary dancehall posturing. The contributors to this collection incorporate a range of approaches that includes cultural studies, musicological analysis, lyrical analysis and historical contextualization. The collection makes a seminal contribution with its presentation of significant work on reggae music in the Hispanic Caribbean (Mexico), particularly for the benefit of English speakers who may have faced restrictions in accessing such material. In a similar vein, the work also introduces material on reggae music in the former Soviet Union (Belarus), again opening spaces that may have been hidden from the anglophone debates. The work also makes another significant contribution in tackling Peter Tosh's intellectual and lyrical legacy as a reggae revolutionary in an era where he has received scant literary and academic attention. Additionally, the work adds considerably to contemporary debates on dancehall music and culture's postmillennial identity debates by introducing a critical academic discourse on the lyrical and cultural posturing of popular dancehall artistes Tommy Lee and Vybz Kartel. ReggaeStories spans several important and connected points in the debates around adoption and adaptation of Jamaican popular music and culture in different cultural and geographical contexts and extends the discussion on how these musical and cultural forms have been transformed or retained in differing localities."--Publisher website.

Alternative Title

• Reggae Stories
• Jamaican musical legends and cultural legacies

Subject

• Reggae music > History and criticism
• Reggae music

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Tracing Jamaican musical legacies and cultural legends / Donna P. Hope -- "I was born here": Glocalizing reggae music in Belarus / Klaus Näumann -- Tommy Lee as "Uncle Demon": Contemporary cultural hybridity in Jamaican dancehall / Robin Clarke -- The development of reggae music in Mexico: A periodization of its adoption and adaptation / Christian Euginio López-Negrete Miranda -- Peter Tosh, social protest and Jamaican curse words / Racquel Bernard -- A Kartel of sin? Messianic desires and Vybz / Anna Kasafi Perkins.

Call Number

ReCAP 19-2552

ISBN

• 9789766406691
• 9766406693

OCLC

1003251843

Title

ReggaeStories : Jamaican musical legends and cultural legacies / edited by Donna P. Hope.

Publisher

Kingston, Jamaica : The University of West Indies Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Hope, Donna P., editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 19-2552