Dancehall

Sonjah Stanley Niaah is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Director of the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Her publications include the books Reggae Pilgrimages: Festivals and the Movement of Jah People and Dancehall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto.

Acknowledgements and Permissions
Introduction—SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH

Part 1: Early Reflections
The Development of Jamaican Popular Music—GARTH WHITE
Slackness Hiding from Culture: Erotic Play in the Dancehall—CAROLYN COOPER
Murderation: The Question of Violence in the Sound System Dance
NORMAN C. STOLZOFF
Gun Talk and Girls' Talk: The DJ Clash—JOSEPH PEREIRA

Part 2: Negotiation, Urban Space and Experience
Post-Nationalist Geographies: Rasta, Ragga and Reinventing Africa—LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI
An Archaeology of Dancehall: Garrison Life at Fort Rocky—ZACHARY J.M. BEIER
Sampling City: Kingston in the Social Imaginary of Jamaican Popular Music—ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
Tommy Lee as "Uncle Demon": Contemporary Cultural Hybridity in Jamaican Dancehall—ROBIN CLARKE
Dancehall Political Patronage and Gun Violence: Political Affiliations and the Glorification of Gun Culture—DENNIS HOWARD


Part 3: Engagement, Spectacle and the Language of Performance
Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica—KRISTA THOMPSON
"Spar wid Me" and Other Stories of Civic Engagement in the Sound Clash Arena—JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN
Death before Dishonour: Language and the Jamaican Sound System Clash—AUDENE S. HENRY


Part 4: Sexual Politics and Aesthetics
Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall—NADIA ELLIS
Fashion Ova Style: Dancehall's Masculine Duality—DONNA HOPE
Ghetto Girls/Urban Music: Jamaican Ragga Music and Female Performance—TRACEY SKELTON
"A Uman Wi Niem!" Sexual Desire and the Poetics of "Badness" in the Works of Lady Saw and Tanya Stephens—AGOSTINHO PINNOCK


Part 5: Sound System, Riddim and Practice
A Caribbean Taste of Technology: Creolization and the Ways of Making of the Dancehall Sound System—JULIAN HENRIQUES
The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice and Ownership in Jamaican Dancehall—PETER MANUEL AND WAYNE MARSHALL
"'Sleng Teng' Dominate Bad, Bad": Understanding Jamaica's "Computerized" Riddim Craze—ERIN C. MacLEOD
Sleng Teng: Redefining Jamaica's Digital Riddims—RAY HITCHINS


Part 6: Ritual, Celebration, Space
Ritual and Community in Dancehall Performance—SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH
Egúngún in Disguise: The Jamaican Nine Night Ceremony—LENA DELGADO DE TORRES
Representations of "Obeah" and "Bad-Mind" in Contemporary Jamaican Dancehall—KATE LAWTON


Part 7: Adornment, Embodiment and Style
Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture—BIBI BAKARE-YUSUF
Dancehall Bodies: Performing In/Securities—"H" PATTEN
Born in Chanel, Christen in Gucci: The Rhetoric of Brand Names and Haute Couture in Jamaican Dancehall—ANDREA SHAW NEVINS


Part 8: The Dancehall Transnation
Music and Orality: Authenticity in Japanese Sound System Culture—MARVIN D. STERLING
Zimdancehall: Jamaican Music in a Transatlantic and African Perspective—ANDREA HOLLINGTON
Black Music, Popular Culture and Existential Capital: The Relationship between Appropriation and Originality—BRUNO BARBOZA MUNIZ
White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation—LARISA KINGSTON MANN


Part 9: Tribute to Bogle
"Bogle ah di Order fi di Day": Dance and Identity in Jamaican Dancehall—SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH
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