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Babylon East : performing, dancehall, roots reggae, and Rastafari in Japan / Marvin D. Sterling.
Van Pelt Library BL2532.R7 S74 2010
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LIBRA BL2532.R7 S74 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterling, Marvin D., 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rastafari movement--Japan.
- Rastafari movement.
- Popular culture--Japan.
- Popular culture.
- Subculture.
- Japan.
- Subculture--Japan.
- Japan--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- The politics of presence : performing blackness in Japan
- Music and orality : authenticity in Japanese sound system culture
- Fashion and dance : performing gender in Japan's reggae dance scene
- Body and spirit : Rastafarian consciousness in rural Japan
- Text and image : bad Jamaicans, tough Japanese, and the third world "search for self"
- Jamaican perspectives on Jamaican culture in Japan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822347057
- 0822347059
- 9780822347224
- 0822347229
- OCLC:
- 468973249
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