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This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security.
Sommario
Introduction 1. Corporeal in/securities in the dancehall space 2. Practice, vision, security 3. Me badi a fe me BMW (my body is my BMW): engaging the badi (body) to interrogate the shifting in/securities within the co-culture of daaance'all 4. Interrogating in/securities in the recording studios of Kingston 5. The mask for survival: a discourse in dancehall regalia 6. Dancehall dancing bodies: the performance of embodied in/security 7. An in/secure life in dance; thoughts on dancehall's in/secure lives 8. The warrior wine - the rotation of Caribbean masculinity 9. 'Sounding' out the system: noise, in/security and the politics of citizenship
Info autore
Patricia Noxolo is a senior lecturer in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK.
'H' Patten is an experienced choreographer, filmmaker, visual artist, storyteller and performer and has developed an international reputation in African and Caribbean arts for over 30 years.
Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah is a Jamaican cultural theorist, scholar-activist, author and an international speaker based at the University of the West Indies (UWI) at Mona, where she is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the Institute of Caribbean Studies.
Riassunto
This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security.
