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Sound clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large
- Title
- Sound clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large / Carolyn Cooper.
- Author
- Cooper, Carolyn, 1950-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- ix, 348 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Music and dance
- Popular music
- Dancehall (Music)
- Jamaica
- Dancehall (Music) > History and criticism
- Women dancers > Sexual behavior > Jamaica
- History
- Popular culture > Jamaica
- Manners and customs
- Ragga (Music)
- Music and dance > Jamaica > History
- Popular music > Jamaica > History and criticism
- Dance halls > Social aspects > Jamaica
- Jamaica > Social life and customs
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Ragga (Music)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-326), discography (pages 326-328), filmography (page 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.
- Call Number
- JMD 20-4
- ISBN
- 1403964254
- 9781403964250
- 1403964246
- 9781403964243
- LCCN
- 2003060161
- OCLC
- 52799208
- Author
- Cooper, Carolyn, 1950-
- Title
- Sound clash : Jamaican dancehall culture at large / Carolyn Cooper.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-326), discography (pages 326-328), filmography (page 328) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JMD 20-4