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"They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay / Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moore, Brian L., 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes--Jamaica.
- Social classes.
- Creoles--Jamaica.
- Creoles.
- Jamaica--Social life and customs.
- Jamaica.
- Jamaica--Social conditions.
- Jamaica--Civilization--British influences.
- Other Title:
- They Do As They Please
- "They Do As They Please"
- Place of Publication:
- UWI PRESS
- Contents:
- The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation
- "Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture
- Celebrating life, commemorating death : rites of passage
- "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culture
- "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity
- "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance
- "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals
- "De tune you playing no de one I dancing" : popular entertainment
- "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture
- "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities
- "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos
- "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war
- Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica.
- ISBN:
- 1-4619-0687-3
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