Mona, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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168 p., 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.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983., 375 p, Probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Covers the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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131 p, Contents: Making West Indian literature -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Locating self : Dennis Scott interviewed -- Dennis Scott : a remembrance -- Interrogating irony : Mervyn Morris interviewed -- The all Jamaica library -- Jane's career and Susan Proudleigh -- Voices under the window -- Validating lives : Trevor Rhone interviewed -- Miss Lou, some heirs and successors -- In search of justice : Linton Kwesi Johnson interviewed -- Building awareness : Mikey Smith interviewed -- Orator Baugh -- Sounds and sense : West Indian poetry -- It was the singing -- Sir Vidia and the prize.
