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Author Moore, Brian L., 1948-

Title "They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay / Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson.

Publication Info. Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 580 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-566) and index.
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 culure -- "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.
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Subject Jamaica -- Social conditions.
Jamaica.
Social conditions.
Social classes -- Jamaica.
Social classes.
Creoles -- Jamaica.
Creoles.
Jamaica -- Civilization -- British influences.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Johnson, Michele A.
Added Title Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
Other Form: Print version: Moore, Brian L., 1948- "They do as they please". Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011 9789766402440 (OCoLC)662407927
ISBN 9781461906872 (electronic book)
1461906873 (electronic book)
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