DanceHall : From Slave Ship to Ghetto /

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Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, this title reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanley Niaah, Sonjah, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, 2010
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pop-Kultur
Dance hall
Social conditions.
Popular culture.
Inner cities.
Dancehall (Music)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Dancehall (Musique) > Aspect social > Jamaïque > Kingston.
Dancehall (Musique) > Jamaïque > Kingston.
Culture populaire > Jamaïque > Kingston.
Quartiers defavorises > Jamaïque > Kingston.
Inner cities > Jamaica > Kingston.
Popular culture > Jamaica > Kingston.
Dancehall (Music) > Jamaica > Kingston.
Dancehall (Music) > Social aspects > Jamaica > Kingston.
Kingston > Jamaika
Jamaica > Kingston.
Kingston (Jamaïque) > Conditions sociales.
Kingston (Jamaica) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Out of many ... one dancehall
  • Introducing performance geography
  • Performing geography in Kingston's dancehall spaces
  • Ritual space, celebratory space
  • Geographies of embodiment
  • dance, status, style
  • Performing boundarylessness
  • A common transnational space.

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