Sound Clash
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Sound Clash

Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

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eBook - PDF

Sound Clash

Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

About this book

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 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 Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B and Apache Indian. Cooper also demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise, ' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes which characterize Jamaican society, and analyzes the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Word, Sound, and Power
  5. ONE: Border Clash: Sites of Contestation
  6. TWO: Slackness Personified: Representations of Female Sexuality in the Lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks
  7. THREE: Lady Saw Cuts Loose: Female Fertility Rituals in the Dancehall
  8. FOUR: "Mama, Is That You?": Erotic Disguise in the Films
  9. FIVE: "Lyrical Gun": Metaphor and Role-Play in Dancehall Culture
  10. SIX: "More Fire": Chanting Down Babylon from Bob Marley to Capleton
  11. SEVEN: "Vile Vocals": Exporting Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics to Barbados
  12. EIGHT: Hip-hopping across Cultures: Reggae to Rap and Back
  13. NINE: "Mix Up the Indian with All the Patwa": Rajamuffin Sounds in Cool Britannia
  14. TEN: The Dancehall Transnation: Language, Lit/orature, and Global Jamaica
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Permissions
  18. Index