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[Norman C. Stolzoff] ☆ Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica ↠ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica For the fan or musicologist, it will serve as a comprehensive reference book.. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion but also between different factions struggling to gain control of the island nation’s political culture. Dancehall culture thus remains a key arena where the future of this volatile nation is shaped. Stolzoff brings a fan’s enthusi
| Title | : | Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822325144 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
In Wake the Town & Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica, Stolzoff reveals that the lingo, dress code, power structure (including sexism and violence), sound and expression of dancehall not only reflect the struggle between Jamaica's haves and have-nots but also represent an intra-class (though not insular) battleground among the nation's poor. From Publishers Weekly Arguing that dancehall music is steeped in the Jamaican slave culture of 200 years ago and is not just a recent form of expression by volatile ghetto youth, Norman C. . 44 b&w photos. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Stolzoff, an anthropologist at the University of California-Irvine, puts forth the first comprehensive study of a largely misunderstood and underestimated phenomenon
For the fan or musicologist, it will serve as a comprehensive reference book.. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion but also between different factions struggling to gain control of the island nation’s political culture. Dancehall culture thus remains a key arena where the future of this volatile nation is shaped. Stolzoff brings a fan’s enthusiasm to his broad perspective on dancehall, providing extensive interviews, original photographs, and anthropological analysis from eighteen months of fieldwork in Kingston. Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. As his argument unfolds, Stolzoff traces the history of Jamaican music from its roots in the late eighteenth century to 1945, from the addition of sound systems and technology during the mid-forties to early sixties, and finally through the post-independence years from the early sixties to the present.Wake the Town and Tell the People offers a general introduction for those interested in dancehall music and culture. Wake t
A Whole New Insight to Jamaican Music! As a lover of the creative, colorful and very controversial culture known as Jamaican dancehall, I received this book ecstatically, but I wasn't quite sure of what to expect. I mean, this is a world that changes so rapidly that any attempts to document it have felt outdated even before their ink dried. The Definitive Book on Dancehall Music justiceman This book is too incredible to believe. For those of us who are into dancehall, when we are in the midst of it, study and academia seem so far away. I never thought it was something that someone could record on paper and carry the true vibes of the whole thing. Stolzoff has not only captured the vibes. Wonderful book for scholars, students and fans As funky, ferocious, and fun as any big beat coming out a sound system in downtown Kingston on a summer night, this book brings Jamaican dancehall to life with some scintillating prose 'riddims'. A sensitive and vivid writer and a longtime student of all things Jamaican, Stolzoff goes everywhere, know
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