C. Cooper: Sound Clash | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781403964243 | Sound Clash | Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large | C. Cooper | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

CAROLYN COOPER is a Professor at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of Noises in the Blood.

Zusammenfassung

Carolyn Cooper's book is the first accessible book on the topic - it is far more readable that Stolzoff's book, and there is very little else on this increasingly popular music

Cooper looks at all aspects of the dancehall phenomenon - the parties, the lyrics, the musicians, the dancehalls, the cult films they inspired, the infamous internal feuds (she lives in Kingston so is up on all the latest gossip)

The musicians themselves are flamboyant and fascinating enough to sell the book - the albino pedophile Yellow Man, the sexy singer Lady Saw who performs wearing a g-string (only), lecturing women to not be used as sex objects, etc etc

In the last 4-5 years dancehall has infiltrated mainstream hip hop radio stations (such as HOT 97 in New York) and parties in this country, first on the East Coast then on the West Coast. It is a rising phenomenon, and has been called "the next hip hop"

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Word, Sound & Power Border Clash: Sites of Contestation Slackness Personified: Representations of Female Sexuality in the Lyrics of Bob Marley and Shabba Ranks Lady Saw Cuts Loose: Female Fertility Rituals in the Dancehall 'Mama, is That You?': Erotic Disguise in the Films Dancehall Queen and Babymother 'Lyrical Gun': Metaphor and Role-Play in Dancehall Culture 'More Fire': Chanting Down Babylon from Bob Marley to Capleton 'Vile Vocals': Exporting Jamaican Dancehall Lyrics to Barbados Hip-Hopping Across Cultures: Reggae to Rap and Back Mix up the Indian with all the Patwa: Rajamuffin Sounds in Cool Britannia The Dancehall Transnation: Language, Literature and Global Jamaica

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2004
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	x 348 S. 12 s/w Illustr. 348 p. 12 illus.
ISBN-13:	9781403964243
ISBN-10:	1403964246
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Cooper, C.
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	C. Cooper
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.10.2004
Gewicht:	0,453 kg