Description
Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica
by Donna P. hope
Inna di Dancehall provides an accessible account of a poorly understood and much maligned aspect of Jamaican popular culture. Donna Hope explores the sociopolitical meanings of Jamaica’s dancehall culture. In particular, she gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society. Hope allows the reader an unmatched insider’s view and explanation of power, violence and gender relations in Jamaica as seen through the prism of dancehall.
Review
“The author presents a lively, perceptive, first-hand account of the evolution of Jamaican dancehall culture. Combining scholarship and anecdotal evidence, Hope delineates the complex web of socio-economic and political factors that shape cultural identity in the marginalized working-class communities out which contemporary popular culture arises.”- Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
About the Author
DONNA P. HOPE is Senior Lecturer, Institute of Caribbean Studies and the Reggae Studies Unit, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Her publications include Inna di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica and Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall.
Print Information
Publisher: University Press of the West Indies; Illustrated edition (January 30, 2006)
Language: English
Paperback: 168 pages
ISBN-10: 9766401683
ISBN-13: 978-9766401689
Item Weight: 10.4 ounces
Dimensions: 6 x 0.44 x 9 inches
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