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King of the Dancehall

Author : Nick Cannon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250113253
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book King of the Dancehall written by Nick Cannon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nick Cannon comes an exhilarating coming of age and tumultuous love story of Tarzan Brixton that spans from the projects of Brooklyn to the shores of Jamaica. After being released from a 5 year prison sentence for an armed robbery gone sideways, he makes a vow to his dying mother to change his ways. With his mother’s medical bills piling up, the temptation of the criminal life becomes too real once again. His solution is to escape the rough streets of New York for the equally ruthless beaches of Kingston, Jamaica. He soon creates a drug running empire while falling in love with a beautiful Jamaican woman named Maya. It’s through Maya that Tarzan becomes captivated by the music, dance, and lifestyle of Jamaican Dancehall culture, which ultimately lifts him towards the path of righteousness.

King Yellowman

Author : Brent Hagerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766408510
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book King Yellowman written by Brent Hagerman and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancehall: the Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture

Author : Stuart Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781916359833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Dancehall: the Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture written by Stuart Baker and published by . This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed, definitive and essential guide to 1980s Jamaican Dancehall--featuring hundreds of photographs with interviews and biographies This widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle. With unprecedented access to the incredibly vibrant music scene during this period, Beth Lesser's photographs are a unique way into a previously hidden part of Jamaican culture. Born in the 1950s out of the neighborhood sound systems of Kingston, Dancehall grew to its height in the 1980s before a massive influx of drugs and guns made the scene too dangerous for many. Dancehall is a culture that encompasses music, fashion, drugs, guns, art, community, technology and more. Many of today's music and fashion styles can be traced back to Dancehall culture and continue to be influenced by it today. Dancehall is an essential reference book for anyone interested in reggae, as well as a unique photographic and textual sourcebook of the musical, cultural and political life of Jamaica. In the early 1980s, as Jamaica was in the throes of political and gang violence, Beth Lesser ventured where few other dared, documenting the producers, singers, DJs and sound systems who all made a living out of the slums of Kingston. This book is a thrilling record of the exciting, dangerous and vibrant world of Dancehall.

Wake the Town & Tell the People

Author : Norman C. Stolzoff
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325147
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Wake the Town & Tell the People written by Norman C. Stolzoff and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of Dancehall, the dominant form of reggae music in Jamica since the early 1960s.

Rajhni Williams

Author : Curdell Williams
Publisher : Kingston Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789766250881
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Rajhni Williams written by Curdell Williams and published by Kingston Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

King Jammy's

Author : Beth Lesser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550225259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book King Jammy's written by Beth Lesser and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bob Marley passed away in 1981, many fans outside Jamaica assumed that reggae had died with him. But as Beth Lesser's intimate tour into the heart of reggae music reveals, this couldn't have been further from the truth. Blaring along winding paths and blasting from the zinc-roofed shacks of Jamaica's toughest ghettoes, reggae was indeed alive. Ghetto-based soundsystems -- involving powerful homemade sound equipment, stacks of vinyl, and full deejay crews -- rocked local dancehalls and gave birth to a new golden age of Jamaican music. The '80s was the age of dancehall and Lloyd 'Jammy' James was King. Having begun his musical career as an apprentice to King Tubby -- the legendary producer, soundman, and engineer credited with inventing dub music -- Jammy soon moved out on his own to build a musical empire comparable to Coxsone Dodd's in the '60s or King Tubby's a decade later. Propelled by a fresh approach and a willingness to experiment with new ideas, King Jammy's soundsystem ruled the dancehall for much of the '80s, as his labels turned out one innovative hit after another, forever changing the sound of reggae music. In this reissue of the classic book first published by Blackstar Press in 1989, Beth Lesser provides an insider's account of the crowning of King Jammy. With an achingly beautiful new design and a treasure chest of rare photos, Lesser's affectionate narrative offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the artists, engineers, deejays, selectors, gatemen, and ghetto-dwellers who played a part in the making of this musical legend. Book jacket.

Original Jamaican) Dancehall Dictionary

Author : Joan Williams
Publisher : Joan williams
ISBN 13 : 9766107718
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Original Jamaican) Dancehall Dictionary written by Joan Williams and published by Joan williams. This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Jamaican reggae/dancehall music has become very dominant in our culture, artists play a huge role in the development of our language, known as patois, as they are constantly coining words and phrases that baffle even older Jamaicans and certainly foreigners. So as people worldwide swing to our music and Jamaica is a well -known tourism destination in the Caribbean , since most Jamaicans do not automatically speak English but only when required, this dictionary is critical to travellers as well music lovers. This is 6th edition of the Original Dancehall Dictionary, a publication which since 1993, has been doing an invaluable job in helping the world understand our language and the cartoons not only assist in the translation but also they add to the hilarity of the publication.

In Fine Style: the Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious

Author : Christopher Bateman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956777379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book In Fine Style: the Dancehall Art of Wilfred Limonious written by Christopher Bateman and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1980s Wilfred Limonious (1949--99) became one of Jamaican music's most prolific graphic artists, designing countless reggae album jackets and record-label logos. With silly characters, scribbled commentary and outrageous Patois-filled speech bubbles, the world he created was the perfect visual counterpart to the island's emerging dancehall scene.

Inna Di Dancehall

Author : Donna P. Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inna Di Dancehall written by Donna P. Hope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica's dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society. Hope gives the reader an unmatched insider's view and explanation of power, violence and gender relations in Jamaica as seen through the prism of the dancehall.

Dancehall

Author : Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766407506
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Dancehall written by Sonjah Stanley Niaah and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture contextualizes the emergence of the globally popular dancehall genre, while tracing the complex and often contradictory aspects of its evolution, dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge analyses of performance modes and expression, genre development, and impact in the wider local, regional and international socio-political milieu of struggles by black Jamaicans in particular and cultural adherents more broadly. Dancehall is one of eight musical genres created in Jamaica and, in the past two decades, it has become one of the most influential Jamaican cultural exports since reggae. The impact of dancehall extends far beyond Jamaica and is evident in music genres (such as hip hop, trip hop, jungle, reggaeton, South African kwaito and Nigerian Afrobeats) and international fashion, film and dance. This interdisciplinary volume documents various aspects of dancehall's global impact, evolution and influence in gender, political economy, geography, ethnomusicology, spirituality, music production, fashion and language. Each selection interrogates the range of meanings ascribed to dancehall culture, a phenomenon which has been seen to be associated with violence, crime and debauchery. This collection exposes the immense cultural work towards self-expression and identity in post-colonial Jamaica which takes shape through dancehall and the contributors apply a new level of seriousness, depth and academic rigour to dancehall studies.

Dancehall

Author : Beth Lesser
Publisher : Soul Jazz Records
ISBN 13 : 9780955481710
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book Dancehall written by Beth Lesser and published by Soul Jazz Records. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancehall is at the centre of Jamaican musical and cultural life. From its roots in Kingston in the 1950s to its heyday in the 1980s, Dancehall has conquered the globe, spreading to the USA, the UK, Canada, Japan and beyond. This is its definitive story. The book features hundreds of exclusive photographs and accompanying text that capture a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle. Dancehall is a culture that encompasses music, fashion, drugs, guns, art, community, technology and more. Born in the 1950s out of the neighbourhood jams of Kingston, Dancehall grew to its height in the 1980s before a massive influx of drugs and guns made the scene too dangerous for many. Beth Lesser's book tells this story from its roots to its heights. Living in Jamaica in the late 1970s/early 1980s, she photographed and documented a cultural explosion as producers, singers, DJs and soundmen made a living out of the slums of Kingston. In the early 1980s, as Jamaica was in the throes of political and gang violence, Beth Lesser ventured where few others dared and this book is a never-before-seen record of the exciting, dangerous and vibrant world of Dancehall.

Wake the Town & Tell the People

Author : Norman C. Stolzoff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wake the Town & Tell the People written by Norman C. Stolzoff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of Dancehall, the dominant form of reggae music in Jamica since the early 1960s.

DanceHall

Author : Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619047
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book DanceHall written by Sonjah Stanley Niaah and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance. Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston’s ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall’s migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic’s geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.

Roc and Roe's Twelve Days of Christmas

Author : Nick Cannon
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545519519
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Roc and Roe's Twelve Days of Christmas written by Nick Cannon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey's twins, Roc and Roe, decorate their Christmas tree with their "pip" version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey's twins, Roc and Roe, decorate their Christmas tree with their "pip" version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas."From an angel with sparkly, shiny wings to four skiing snowmen to twelve chugging choo-choos, Roc and Roe have a frolicking time getting ready for the holidays.

Caribbean Popular Music

Author : David V. Moskowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031301762X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Popular Music written by David V. Moskowitz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reggae music is more than just steel drum bands on white sand beaches. Its history is rich with culture and evolution, helping to tell the story of Jamaica's past. Due to its depth and extensive coverage, this book is the most complete and up to date encyclopedia about reggae, mento, ska, rocksteady, and dancehall music on the market today. Ideal for reggae lovers and college students studying music, this encyclopedia is comprehensive for high school students and non-music students as well. From Bob Marley to Wayne Wonder, this easy to use encyclopedia contains over 700 entries. Indices in both the front and back of the book make navigating through entries extremely user-friendly. Entries cover singers and songwriters, producers, record labels, and different styles of music that evolved from reggae. Moskowitz truly captures the history and evolution of Jamaican music in this extensive, illuminating encyclopedia, while all the while making it accessible to both high school and college students.

Man Vibes

Author : Donna P. Hope
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789766374075
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Man Vibes written by Donna P. Hope and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Jamaica, dancehall music and culture has become perhaps the most prominent expression of Jamaican popular culture. Taking its name from dance halls in which popular local recordings were played by sound systems, the concept of Dancehall as a cultural space has rapidly gained momentum in the last three decades as deejay stars enjoy unprecedented successes locally and internationally. Donna Hope builds on her earlier work on popular culture and theories of sexuality/gender to examine the process and progress of Jamaican masculinities. Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall explores Jamaican masculinity through the male-dominated dancehall space that is at once a celebration of the marginalized poor and also a challenge to social inequality. Using the major masculine debates that are articulated in dancehall music and culture, Hope explores the transition of Jamaican masculinity in the 21st century. The dancehall representations of Ole Dawg (promiscuity), Badman (violence), Chi Chi Man (anti-male homosexuality), Bling Bling (consumerist/consumptive) and Fashion Ova Style (stylized transgressions and homosexuality) are all used to evaluate the relationship between dancehall culture and the hegemonic standard of masculine. Man Vibes significantly advances the Cultural Studies agenda and acts as a contemporary reader by speaking not only to dancehall music and culture s masculinities but to Jamaican and Black masculinities in general. "

Reggae

Author : Lloyd Bradley
Publisher : BBC Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reggae written by Lloyd Bradley and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jamaican music - truly an urban folk music - that has conquered the world and rocked successive generations. Although it originated on the streets of Kingston, it has remained on the streets wherever it has roamed, London, Birmingham or New York.