Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record 2 of 2
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Stanley Niaah, Sonjah, 1970-

Title Dancehall : from slave ship to ghetto / Sonjah Stanley Niaah.

Publication Info. Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, [2010]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2010

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (238 pages : illustrations).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African and diasporic studies
African and diasporic studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Dancehall (Music) -- Social aspects -- Jamaica -- Kingston.
Dancehall (Music)
Social aspects.
Jamaica.
Jamaica -- Kingston.
Dancehall (Music) -- Jamaica -- Kingston.
Popular culture -- Jamaica -- Kingston.
Popular culture.
Inner cities -- Jamaica -- Kingston.
Inner cities.
Kingston (Jamaica) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780776630410
ISBN 9780776619057 (electronic book)
0776619055 (electronic book)
9780776630410 (bound)
9780776607368 (paperback)