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Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture contextualizes the emergence of the globally popular dancehall genre, while tracing the complex and often contradictory aspects of its evolution, dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge analyses of performance modes and expression, genre development, and impact in the wider local, regional and international socio-political mi...

Highlights the significance of real and imagined spaces created by reggae through a politics of celebration, revolution, and a complex (dis)/unity among an international community of reggae pilgrims.

Highlights the significance of real and imagined spaces created by reggae through a politics of celebration, revolution, and a complex (dis)/unity among an international community of reggae pilgrims.

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, danceh...