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    7. "Rock it come over": the folk music of Jamaica, with special reference to Kumina and the work of Mrs. Imogene "Queenie" Kennedy

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lewin,Olive (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2000
    Published:
    Kingston Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    335 p, Rock it Come Over describes the music and lore of slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century.

    10. 'Stone cold dead in the market': Domestic violence and Americanized calypso

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bruno,Franklin (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Popular music and society
    Journal Title Details:
    34(1) : 7-21
    Notes:
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan's recording of “Stone Cold Dead in the Market” was a major R&amp;B and pop hit in 1946. In narrating a woman's murder of her abusive husband from a sympathetic first-person point of view, the recording's depiction of domestic violence raises the question of how it achieved mass popularity in a cultural milieu that discouraged frank discussion of this topic. This article accounts for this popularity by tracing the musical and lyrical changes between the hit recording and its sources, the Caribbean folk ballad Payne dead/Murder in the market and calypso performer Wilmouth Houdini's 1939 adaptation He had it coming.