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Noises in the Blood : Orality, Gender, and the"Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture /

The language of Jamaican popular culture-its folklore, idioms, music, poetry, song-even when written is based on a tradition of sound, an orality that has often been denigrated as not worthy of serious study. In Noises in the Blood, Carolyn Cooper critically examines the dismissed discourse of Jamai...

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Autor principal: Cooper, Carolyn, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Edición:1st U.S. ed.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Oral sexual discourse in Jamaican popular culture -- 'Me know no law, me know no sin': transgressive identities and the voice of innocence: the historical context -- 'Culture an tradition an birthright': proverb as metaphor in the poetry of Louise Bennett -- That cunny Jarnma oman: representations of female sensibility in the poetry of Louise Bennett -- Words unbroken by the beat: the performance poetry of Jean Binta Breeze and Mikey Smith -- Writing oral history: Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart Gal -- Country come to town: Michael Thelwell's The Harder They Come -- Chanting down Babylon: Bob Marley's song as literary text -- Slackness hiding from culture: erotic play in the dancehall -- From 'centre' to 'margin': turning history upside down -- Appendix 1. Proverbs from Louise Bennett -- Appendix 2. Jamaican proverbs: a gender perspective. 
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