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Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyWorld Music

ISBN10: 1403964246
ISBN13: 9781403964243
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 12 2004
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.98 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
Megawattage sound systems have blasted the electronically-enhanced riddims and tongue-twisting lyrics of Jamaica's dancehall DJs across the globe. This high-energy raggamuffin music is often dismissed by old-school roots reggae fans as a raucous degeneration of classic Jamaican popular music. In this provocative study of dancehall culture, Cooper offers a sympathetic account of the philosophy of a wide range of dancehall DJs: Shabba Ranks, Lady Saw, Ninjaman, Capleton, Buju Banton, Anthony B and Apache Indian. Cooper also demonstrates the ways in which the language of dancehall culture, often devalued as mere 'noise, ' articulates a complex understanding of the border clashes which characterize Jamaican society, and analyzes the sound clashes that erupt in the movement of Jamaican dancehall culture across national borders.

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