Buyers Beware : Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Critical Caribbean Studies .
- Critical Caribbean Studies .
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea-Situating Caribbean Pop Culture Globally -- 1. Is Not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace -- 2. Buyers Beware, Hoodwinking on the Rise: Epistemologies of Consumption in "Sistah Lit" -- 3. "Who's on Top?": Power, Pleasure, and the Politics of Taste -- 4. "Fashion ova Style": The Art of Self-Fashioning in Jamaican Pop Culture -- 5. "Outta Order" or "Outta Door?": Caribbean Women Performing Power, Politics, and Sexuality -- 6. Gardening in the Garrisons: (Un)Visibility in Contemporary Caribbean Art -- Conclusion: "Puuulll Uuuuuuup" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Series Titles.
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Consumption (Economics)-Social aspects-Caribbean Area. Popular culture-Caribbean Area.