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Author Stanley Niaah, Sonjah, 1970- author.

Title Dancehall : from slave ship to ghetto / Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Published Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2010 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages : illustrations
Series African and diasporic studies
African and diasporic studies
Contents Out of many ... one dancehall -- Introducing performance geography -- Performing geography in Kingston's dancehall spaces -- Ritual space, celebratory space -- Geographies of embodiment -- dance, status, style -- Performing boundarylessness -- A common transnational space
Summary Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, this title reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Dancehall (Music) -- Social aspects -- Jamaica -- Kingston
Dancehall (Music) -- Jamaica -- Kingston
Popular culture -- Jamaica -- Kingston
Inner cities -- Jamaica -- Kingston
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Dancehall (Music)
Inner cities
Popular culture
Social conditions
Dance hall
Pop-Kultur
SUBJECT Kingston (Jamaica) -- Social conditions
Subject Jamaica -- Kingston
Kingston Jamaika
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780776619057
0776619055
9780776619040
0776619047