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Author : Vybz Kartel (Musician)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615510675
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Vybz Kartel's The Voice of the Jamaican Ghetto written by Vybz Kartel (Musician) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne M. Galvin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826519806
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Sounds of the Citizens written by Anne M. Galvin and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancehall: it's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans. Galvin highlights the unique alliance between the dancehall industry and community development efforts. As the central role of the state in supporting communities has diminished, the rise of private efforts such as dancehall becomes all the more crucial. The tension, however, between those involved in the industry and those within the neighborhoods is palpable and often dangerous. Amidst all this, individual Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social identity, and sexual mores. As Sounds of the Citizens illustrates, the world of entertainment in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a powerful force within the community.
Author : Al Fingers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956777393
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Clarks in Jamaica written by Al Fingers and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jamaica, Clarks are loved like no other brand. They are the island's ruling name in footwear -- the "champion shoes" -- and it has been that way for as long as anybody can remember. This book celebrates the rich history of Clarks in Jamaica, with a focus on the Jamaican reggae and dancehall musicians who have worn and sung about Clarks shoes through the years. Documenting the origins of the Clarks brand in 1825 through to the introduction of their shoes into Jamaica in the 1920s and the impact of styles such as the Desert Boot, Wallabee and Desert Trek on the island, Clarks in Jamaica explores how footwear made by a Quaker firm in the quiet English village of Street, Somerset became the "baddest" shoes in Jamaica and an essential part of the island's culture. Building on the success of the first release in 2011, this updated second edition includes new interviews, previously unseen photographs, insights into Jamaica's favourite styles of Clarks from former company employees, and an expanded chapter on Jamaican fashion detailing the histories of island fashion staples such as the mesh marina (string vest), Arrow shirt, knits ganzie and beaver hat. Beautifully presented and thoroughly researched, Clarks in Jamaica is a wonderful document of Clarks' deep roots in Jamaican culture, a fitting tribute to the rich cultural exchange that has taken place between Jamaica and the UK that will appeal as much to Jamaicaphiles and lovers of Clarks shoes as to musicologists, fashion stylists and cultural historians.
Author : Sister Souljah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439165327
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Deeper Love Inside written by Sister Souljah and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural-born hustler Porsche Santiaga refuses to accept her new life in juvenile detention after her family is torn apart and fights to regain what she has lost.
Author : Ian Thomson
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586663
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Dead Yard written by Ian Thomson and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live and drug lords like Christopher Coke rule elites and the poor alike. Ian Thomson's brave book explores a country of lost promise, where America's hunger for drugs fuels a dependent economy and shadowy politics. The lauded birthplace of reggae and Bob Marley, Jamaica is now sunk in corruption and hopelessness. A synthesis of vital history and unflinching reportage, The Dead Yard is "a fascinating account of a beautiful, treacherous country" (Irish Times).
Author : Ian Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351366580
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Language Contact and the Future of English written by Ian Mackenzie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the future of the English language as used by native speakers, speakers of nativized New Englishes, and users of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The volume begins by outlining the current position of English in the world and accounts for the differences among native and nativized varieties and ELF usages. It offers a historical perspective on the impact of language contact on English and discusses whether the lexicogrammatical features of New Englishes and ELF are shaped by imperfect learning or deliberate language change. The book also considers the consequences of writing in a second language and questions the extent to which non-native English-speaking academics and researchers should be required to conform to ‘Anglo’ patterns of text organization and ‘English Academic Discourse.’ The book then examines the converse effect of English on other languages through bilingualism and translation. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars in English language, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and language policy.
Author : Doctor Dread
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617752908
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Half That's Never Been Told written by Doctor Dread and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate memoir and fearless behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of the biggest reggae stars in the world.
Author : Roger Mais
Publisher : MacMillan Caribbean
ISBN 13 : 9781405062961
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Brother Man written by Roger Mais and published by MacMillan Caribbean. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1954, this is the tragic story of an honest Rastafarian healer caught up in a web of intrigue and betrayal in Jamaica's tough West Kingston slums. It is a portrait of a ghetto saint - an ordinary man selected by the universe to bring enlightenment to poor belittled people.
Author : Casey Gane-McCalla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944082079
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Inside the CIA's Secret War in Jamaica written by Casey Gane-McCalla and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside The CIA's Secret War In Jamaica tells the story of the campaign from the United States to destabilize the Michael Manley government in 1976 due to his ties to Fidel Castro. The book covers the rise of violence between the PNP (People's National Party) and the JLP (Jamaica Labor Party), the assassination attempt of Bob Marley, and the rise of the Jamaica Shower Posse and its ties to the CIA. Gane-McCalla also takes an in-depth look into the events leading up to 1976 for both the CIA and the country of Jamaica including Jamaica's history of pirates and slave rebellions, and its road to independence. To understand the nature and history of the CIA, the book gets to the bottom of the John F. Kennedy assassination, Watergate, CIA heroin smuggling in Laos during the Vietnam War, and cocaine trafficking during Iran-Contra, which involved the same players who were involved in destabilizing Jamaica.
Author : Andrew Whelan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381167X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Breakcore written by Andrew Whelan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peer-to-peer music exchange, sampling, and digital distribution have garnered much attention in recent years, notably in debates about authorship, intellectual property, media control, and ‘Web 2’. However, empirical scholarship on how these technologies are used creatively by musicians and fans is still sparse. In this interdisciplinary ethnography of ‘bedroom producer’ culture, Andrew Whelan examines interaction and exchange within a specific online milieu: peer-to-peer chatrooms dedicated to electronic music, focusing on a genre known as ‘breakcore’. The author draws on semantic anthropology, ethnomethodology, sociolinguistics, and critical musicology to explore the activity afforded by this controversial and criminalised environment. Through in-depth analysis of often ritually vituperative text-based interaction, discussions of music, and the samples used in that music, Whelan describes the cultural politics and aesthetics of bedroom producer identity, highlighting the roles gender and ethnicity play in the constitution of subcultural authenticity. Empirically driven throughout, this book also engages with a spectrum of social theory; in doing so, it highlights the intersections between gender, interaction, technology and music. This book will prove valuable for students and scholars with interests in gender and language use, computer-mediated communication, online subcultures and virtual community, and the evolution, production and distribution of electronic music.
Author : Patrick 'curly Loxx' Gaynor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789769660007
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Planet Hurt Volume One written by Patrick 'curly Loxx' Gaynor and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planet Hurt Volume One: The Idea & The Process is a revolutionary psychological eye opener and guidebook of sorts for those who wish to improve their relationships (be it personal or professional), face and conquer their deficiencies, and lead more fulfilled lives.
Author : Louis Chude-Sokei
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957578X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Sound of Culture written by Louis Chude-Sokei and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany.
Author : Norman C. Stolzoff
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325147
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (251 download)
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.
Author : Orlando Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674243072
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Confounding Island written by Orlando Patterson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent sociologist and National Book Award–winning author of Freedom in the Making of Western Culture grapples with the paradox of his homeland: its remarkable achievements amid continuing struggles since independence. There are few places more puzzling than Jamaica. Jamaicans claim their home has more churches per square mile than any other country, yet it is one of the most murderous nations in the world. Its reggae superstars and celebrity sprinters outshine musicians and athletes in countries hundreds of times its size. Jamaica’s economy is anemic and too many of its people impoverished, yet they are, according to international surveys, some of the happiest on earth. In The Confounding Island, Orlando Patterson returns to the place of his birth to reckon with its history and culture. Patterson investigates the failures of Jamaica’s postcolonial democracy, exploring why the country has been unable to achieve broad economic growth and why its free elections and stable government have been unable to address violence and poverty. He takes us inside the island’s passion for cricket and the unparalleled international success of its local musical traditions. He offers a fresh answer to a question that has bedeviled sports fans: Why are Jamaican runners so fast? Jamaica’s successes and struggles expose something fundamental about the world we live in. If we look closely at the Jamaican example, we see the central dilemmas of globalization, economic development, poverty reduction, and postcolonial politics thrown into stark relief.
Author : Thibault Ehrengardt
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 2953398287
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Gangs of Jamaica, The Babylonian Wars written by Thibault Ehrengardt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAMAICA-1,600 murders a year-200 gangs in activity-the third most dangerous country in the world in 2012! Crime down there is closely linked to political corruption, that's why it is so hard to fight it. The author was granted the rare authorization to follow some police patrols in the most volatile areas; he also met several gang leaders (Dons), including one who was murdered a few weeks later, and he gives a dreadful insight into the Jamaican society at large. Thibault Ehrengardt is the former chief editor of Natty Dread Magazine, and the current head of DREAD Editions; he's written several books about Jamaica. www.jamaica-insula.com
Author : Stephanie Wakefield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785420719
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Anthropocene Back Loop written by Stephanie Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are entering the Anthropocene's back loop, a time of release and collapse, confusion and reorientation, in which not only populations and climates are being upended but also physical and metaphysical grounds. Needed now are forms of experimentation geared toward autonomous modes of living within the back loop's new unsafe operating spaces.
Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751170
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Kingston Noir written by Colin Channer and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . with a rich interplay of geographies and themes.” —Los Angeles Times From Trench Town to Half Way Tree to Norbrook to Portmore and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two “special guest” writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson. The menacing tone that runs through some of these stories is counterbalanced by the clever humor in others, such as Kei Miller’s “White Gyal with a Camera,” who softens even the hardest of August Town’s gangsters; and Mr. Brown, the private investigator in Kwame Dawes’s story, who explains why his girth works to his advantage: “In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge.” Together—with more contributions from Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, and Christopher John Farley—the outstanding tales in Kingston Noir comprise the best volume of short fiction ever to arise from the literary wellspring that is Jamaica. “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” —Publishers Weekly “An eclectic and gritty mélange of tales that sears the imagination . . . Kingston Noir proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature—rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism.” —The Gleaner (Jamaica)
