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Born a sufferah : dancehall music's insurgent soundscapes / by Quito Swan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swan, Quito, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dancehall (Music)--Political aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Dancehall (Music).
- Reggae music--Political aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Reggae music.
- Black people--Caribbean Area--Social conditions.
- Black people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This book evaluates modern Caribbean politics through the soundscapes of Reggae and Dancehall. Born to Reggae in the 1970s, Dancehall is often framed by its lyrics of hyper masculinity. This has distorted its engagement with Reggae's innate politics, largely Rastafari's critique of the West as being of a Biblical Babylon. Both strains grappled with questions of a decolonizing and migrating Caribbean: hard times, concrete ecologies, and promised lands. But if Reggae's radical soundings of Black liberation repatriated East beyond Babylon's rivers, then to what extent did Dancehall imagine freedom amidst the contradictions of the gully sided West?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- How Reggae Overstood Rodney
- Traffic Blocking, Radio Free Grenada
- Black's Revolution
- Death Inna Dancehall
- Greetings From Jah, to all Raggamuffins
- What One Gun Can Do
- Poor People's Governors
- Misses Africa
- Dubplates, Massives, and Crews
- Free Gaza, Free Vybz Kartel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9798765101285
- 9798765101261
- OCLC:
- 1446489599
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