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Sound Clash : Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large - 04 edition

by Carolyn Cooper

Sound Clash : Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large (ISBN10: 1403964246; ISBN13: 9781403964243)
ISBN13: 978-1403964243
ISBN10: 1403964246

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ISBN13: 978-1403964250
ISBN10: 1403964254

Summary: Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, offers a sympathetic ...show moreaccount of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B, Apache Indian. She demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise,' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes that characterise Jamaican society. Cooper also analyses the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders. ...show less

Edition/Copyright: 04
Cover: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Year Published: 2004

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