Abstracts… Rasta Teacher: Leadership, Pedagogy and the New Faculty of Interpretation By Jalani Adwin Niaah 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 This study is about the leadership provided by Rastafari. This leadership is explored through a focus on Rastafari Elder Mortimo Planno, a man who describes himself as a rebel or…
Abstracts… Rex Nettleford: Choreographer as Cultural Philosopher in Three Classic Works – Pocomania, Kumina and Gerrehbenta by Monica Angella Lawrence 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 My research involved the examination of three neo-traditional rituals choreographed over a thirty year period, by Rex Nettleford, for the concert stage. Nettleford's philosophical intent is contextualized in examining these…
Abstracts… The Development of Calypso in the Antigua and its Continuity with Old Testament Traditions by Novelle Charlesworth Josiah 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Calypso is a song genre and cultural art form which was brought to Antigua aby the Africans who were enslaved and brought to work there. The contention of this…
Abstracts… The Industrialization of Football in Jamaica: a Cultural Analysis of Jamaica’s 1998 Reggae Boyz Road to France World Cup Campaign by Donald Davis 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 This dissertation examines football in Jamaica viewed through the bi- focal cultural lens of play and sport; looking at the evolution of recreational play to the level of work/business/industry (Hargreaves…
Abstracts… The Missing Dialectics: An Examination of the B.Sc. Management Studies Programme at The UWI For Cultural Content And Relevance by Orville Wayne Beckford 29 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 This dissertation examines the Management Studies Programme at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona in order to analyse its cultural content and evaluate whether some courses are adequately…
Abstracts… Jazz in the Caribbean and its Influence on the Wider Society. An Exploration of the Cultural Elements that went into the Creation of Jazz: Markers of Identity by Merna Hague Bradshaw 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 In the 1940’s Jazz underwent a transformation instigated by the return to source of musicians disenchanted with the musical cul-de-sac that Swing had played itself into. Looking for inspiration and…
Abstracts… Kingston’s Dancehall: A Story of Space and Celebration by Sonjah Stanley Niaah 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 ‘Limbo,’ Butterfly and the ‘Jerry Springer’, dances throughout Jamaica’s Dancehall history, have mostly been created in the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA). The stories they tell about history, the birth and…
Abstracts… Critiquing Christendom: A Jamaican Christian Response to the Religion of ‘Globalisation’ by Stephen C. A. Jennings 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 The thesis is a religious response to ‘Globalisation’ in light of its effects on Post-colonial Jamaican Christian Experience. Arguing that ‘Globalisation’ is an American Religious Hegemonic Project, and is really…
Abstracts… The Oral Tradition: Displacement, Adjustment, Replacement – Storytelling as a Tool for Wholistic Development by Amina Isoline Blackwood Meeks 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 This study is concerned with the development of the peoples of the Caribbean. It accepts Walter Rodney’s elaboration in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa on the role of capitalism, both mercantile…
Abstracts… Spirit Dancing (Daaancing) in Patois: L’Antech as Contemporary Nation Dance Language by Lenora Antoinette Stines 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 For more than three centuries Eurocentrism has been the dominant ethos in the evolution of Jamaican contemporary dance. However, since political independence in 1962 there has been significant research into…
