Titlebook: Sound Clash; Jamaican Dancehall C Carolyn Cooper Book 2004 Carolyn Cooper 2004 culture.energy.society

Cognizance

,“More Fire”,ose metaphors inflame today’s dancehall consciousness. The rhetoric is vintage Bob Marley: “Revolution,” from the 1974 . album. These days it is easy to forget the blood-and-fire, lightning-thunder-and-brimstone Bob Marley. The revolutionary Tuff Gong Rastaman has been commodified and repackaged as

Mediocre

丧失

征服

Catheter

The Dancehall Transnation,language. Such notions have their origins in the Europe of the late Middle Ages, following the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire. This ideal of what a state should be has spread across the world in the wake of European expansion and domination and has been universally accepted in spite of the fact th

省略

Book 2004s 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 S

MANIA

Border Clash,their followers contend for the control of territory, both literal and symbolic. Its meaning thus widened, the dancehall trope of the “border clash” ultimately speaks to ideological conflicts between competing value systems in Jamaica.

Genome

,“Mama, Is That You?”,tion of a distinctive cultural style that allows women the liberty to demonstrate the seductive appeal of the imaginary—and their own bodies. In an elaborate public striptease, transparent bedroom garments become theatrical street wear, somewhat like the emperor’s new clothes. And who dares say that the body is naked? Only the naive.

CLOWN

,“Vile Vocals”,gional issues, this chapter examines some of the ideological implications of the widespread disvaluation of Jamaican popular music (emphasis on the .) and contrasts the divisive nationalist discourses of the region’s elites with the populist, pan-Caribbean identity that is affirmed in popular music circulating freely beyond national borders.

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