Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society

Foreword: Dancehall Culture Upsetting Delicate Sensibilities vii
CAROLYN COOPER

Preface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ix
VIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSON

Acknowledgements xiii

Prologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephens and the Power of Music to Transform Society 1
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYA

Part 1: Who Is Tanya?
1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23
AJAMU NANGWAYA
2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall?s Ruff Rider 49
MELVILLE COOKE
3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64
TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE

Part 2: ?Still #1 with a #2 Pencil?: Producing and Disseminating Knowledge
4 ?The Sound of My Tears?: Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS
5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93
ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA
6 ?Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride?: Tanya Stephens?s Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113
ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON
7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127
NICOLE PLUMMER

Part 3: ?Put It on You?: Tanya Stephens?s Erotic Playbook
8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155
ALPHA OBIKA
9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179
SARA SULIMAN
10 ?It?s a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife?: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens?s Civilized Man-Sharing 208
CHAZELLE RHODEN
11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221
KAREN CARPENTER
Epilogue: ?A Bunch of Righteous Freaks?: Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243
ANNA KASAFI PERKINS

Appendix 263
Contributors 265