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Introduction
SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH
Part 1: Early Reflections
The Development of Jamaican Popular Music
GARTH WHITE
Slackness Hiding from Culture: Erotic Play in the Dancehall
CAROLYN COOPER
Murderation: The Question of Violence in the Sound System Dance
NORMAN C. STOLZOFF
Gun Talk and Girls? Talk: The DJ Clash
JOSEPH PEREIRA
Part 2: Negotiation, Urban Space and Experience
Post-Nationalist Geographies: Rasta, Ragga and Reinventing Africa
LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI
An Archaeology of Dancehall: Garrison Life at Fort Rocky
ZACHARY J.M. BEIER
Sampling City: Kingston in the Social Imaginary of Jamaican Popular Music
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
Tommy Lee as ?Uncle Demon?: Contemporary Cultural Hybridity in Jamaican Dancehall
ROBIN CLARKE
Dancehall Political Patronage and Gun Violence: Political Affiliations and the Glorification of Gun Culture
DENNIS HOWARD
Part 3: Engagement, Spectacle and the Language of Performance
Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica
KRISTA THOMPSON
?Spar wid Me? and Other Stories of Civic Engagement in the Sound Clash Arena
JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN
Death before Dishonour: Language and the Jamaican Sound System Clash
AUDENE S. HENRY
Part 4: Sexual Politics and Aesthetics
Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
NADIA ELLIS
Fashion Ova Style: Dancehall?s Masculine Duality
DONNA HOPE
Ghetto Girls/Urban Music: Jamaican Ragga Music and Female Performance
TRACEY SKELTON
?A Uman Wi Niem!? Sexual Desire and the Poetics of ?Badness? in the Works of Lady Saw and Tanya Stephens
AGOSTINHO PINNOCK
Part 5: Sound System, Riddim and Practice
A Caribbean Taste of Technology: Creolization and the Ways of Making of the Dancehall Sound System
JULIAN HENRIQUES
The Riddim Method: Aesthetics, Practice and Ownership in Jamaican Dancehall
PETER MANUEL AND WAYNE MARSHALL
??Sleng Teng? Dominate Bad, Bad?: Understanding Jamaica?s ?Computerized? Riddim Craze
ERIN C. MacLEOD
Sleng Teng: Redefining Jamaica?s Digital Riddims
RAY HITCHINS
Part 6: Ritual, Celebration, Space
Ritual and Community in Dancehall Performance
SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH
Egúngún in Disguise: The Jamaican Nine Night Ceremony
LENA DELGADO DE TORRES
Representations of ?Obeah? and ?Bad-Mind? in Contemporary Jamaican Dancehall
KATE LAWTON
Part 7: Adornment, Embodiment and Style
Fabricating Identities: Survival and the Imagination in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
BIBI BAKARE-YUSUF
Dancehall Bodies: Performing In/Securities
?H? PATTEN
Born in Chanel, Christen in Gucci: The Rhetoric of Brand Names and Haute Couture in Jamaican Dancehall
ANDREA SHAW NEVINS
Part 8: The Dancehall Transnation
Music and Orality: Authenticity in Japanese Sound System Culture
MARVIN D. STERLING
Zimdancehall: Jamaican Music in a Transatlantic and African Perspective
ANDREA HOLLINGTON
Black Music, Popular Culture and Existential Capital: The Relationship between Appropriation and Originality
BRUNO BARBOZA MUNIZ
White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation
LARISA KINGSTON MANN
Part 9: Tribute to Bogle
?Bogle ah di Order fi di Day?: Dance and Identity in Jamaican Dancehall
SONJAH STANLEY NIAAH
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