Abstracts… Sell off or Sell Out?: Experiential Marketing Using the Massive Jamaican Dancehall Market, 2005 – 2015 by Melville Brenton Cooke 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 In April 2005 the Coalition of Corporate Sponsors banned Jamaican deejays Beenie Man and Bounty Killer from events they supported, after the two cursed while criticising homosexuals during a live…
Abstracts… The Politics of Identity: Exploring Contemporary Representations of Jamaican Rastafari Male Artistes in the Dancehall by Troy R. Folkes 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 Rastafari has had a long tradition of using music to communicate messages of peace, love, unity, wellness, social justice and African consciousness. A traditional Rastafari is usually defined by these…
Abstracts… From Sleng Teng to Smokin’: The Development of Jamaican Dancehall Riddims by Shari Akua Williams 1 Mar 201829 Jul 2018 Dancehall is currently the most popular genre of indigenous music in Jamaica, and it enjoys a similar popularity throughout the Caribbean region. Since its emergence in the early 1980s, it…
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…
