Reggae from YAAD : Traditional and Emerging Themes in Jamaican Popular Music.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
Intro -- Table ofContents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section 1 Legendary Reasonings -- 'Bob Marley: The Man that I Know' -- 'Production Something': David Katz in Conversation with Bunny 'Striker' Lee, King Jammy and Bobby Digital -- Section 2 Discourses Beyond Yaad -- Expressions of Reggae in Havana: Processes of Foreign Influence and Cultural Appropriation -- 'You've got no time for me': Martin 'Sugar' Merchant, British Caribbean Musical Identity and the Media -- Section 3 Discursive Pathways in Jamaican popular Music -- Freedom Sound: Music of Jamaica's Independence -- Your Name A Mention: Media Coverage of Clashes/Feuds in Jamaican Popular Music 1970-2010 -- From Dub Plate to Dancehall: Versioning as an Analogue Template for Digital Reggae -- Section 4 Dancehall Matters -- Between 'Murder Music'1 and 'Gay Propaganda'2: Policing Respectability in the Debate on Homophobic Dancehall -- Good, Good Goodas Gyal: Deconstructing the Virtuous Woman in Dancehall -- The Lyrical Opus of Tommy Lee Sparta: Masculinity, Violence, Sexuality and Conflict -- List of Contributors -- Index.