Sound Clash

Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

By: C. Cooper

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Paperback | 1 September 2004 | Edition Number 1

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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 account 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.

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'Cooper makes compelling - and as usual - controversial arguments about the fundamental relevance of dancehall music to the critical understanding of Jamaican culture to claat.' - Colin Channer, author of Satisfy my Soul and Waiting in Vain

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Published: 15th September 2004

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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
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