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Sound Clash

Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Word, Sound, and Power

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 1-33

  3. Border Clash

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 35-72

  4. Slackness Personified

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 73-97

  5. Lady Saw Cuts Loose

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 99-123

  6. “Mama, Is That You?”

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 125-144

  7. “Lyrical Gun”

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 145-178

  8. “More Fire”

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 179-206

  9. “Vile Vocals”

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 207-229

  10. Hip-hopping across Cultures

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 231-249

  11. “Mix Up the Indian with All the Patwa”

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 251-277

  12. The Dancehall Transnation

    • Carolyn Cooper
    Pages 279-301

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 303-348
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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.

Reviews

'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

About the author

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sound Clash

  • Book Subtitle: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

  • Authors: Carolyn Cooper

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982605

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Carolyn Cooper 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6425-0Published: 12 October 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6424-3Published: 12 October 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8260-5Published: 14 September 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 348

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Latin American Culture, Music, Dance

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