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  • Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance

    Spirit Bodies Moving

    de 'H' Patten ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    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 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Dancehall In/Securities

    Perspectives on Caribbean Expressive Life

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    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 ... Leer más

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    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From its obscure beginnings in Jamaica in the early 1930s, Rastafari has grown into an international socio-religious movement. It is estimated that 700,000 to 1 million people worldwide have embraced Rastafari, and adherents of the movement can be found in most of the major population centres and many outposts of the world. Rastafari: A Very Short Introduction provides an account of this ... Leer más

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  • Stuff

    de Daniel Miller ...
    Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the ... Leer más

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  • Inna di Dancehall

    de Donna P. Hope ...
    The author gives the reader an insider's view of power, violence and sexuality in Jamaica as seen through the prism of the dancehall. ... Leer más

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  • Becoming Rasta

    Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica

    de Charles Price ...
    An exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religion.So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet ... Leer más

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  • DanceHall

    From Slave Ship to Ghetto

    Series series African and Diasporic Cultural Studies
    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, ... Leer más

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  • Speech Communities

    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech ... Leer más

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  • Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall

    de Donna P. Hope ...
    In Jamaica, dancehall music and culture has become perhaps the most prominent expression of Jamaican popular culture. Taking its name from the dance halls in which popular local recordings were played by sound systems, the concept of Dancehall as a cultural space has rapidly gained momentum in the last three decades as deejay stars enjoy unprecedented success locally and internationally. Donna ... Leer más

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  • Global Reggae

    This collection of illuminating essays highlight the "globalization" of reggae - its global dispersal and adaptation in diverse local contexts of consumption and transformation. ... Leer más

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  • Caribbean Reasonings: Culture, Politics and Diaspora - The Thought of Stuart Hall

    Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire cadre of young intellectuals who continue to make remarkable contributions in the fields of Cultural ... Leer más

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    de Nadia Ellis ...
    Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth—that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on the work of Jose Muñoz, Ellis connects queerness' utopian potential with diasporic aesthetics. ... Leer más

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