Abstracts From ‘Cultural Institution’ to ‘Cultural Industry’? A Comparative Analysis of the Television Industry in Jamaica and Ghana 1997 – 2009 by Deborah Anne Hickling 1 Mar 2018 In this thesis, changing meanings and practices in television broadcasting and production in Jamaica and Ghana are used to examine transitions in structures, processes and policies associated with the adoption…
Abstracts Violence in Vybz Kartel’s Music: Metaphor, Musical Identity, Performance or Masculinity? by Kimberly Carr-Tobias 1 Mar 2018 This paper’s objective is to contribute to the field of Cultural Studies, more specifically, Caribbean Cultural Studies. This study addresses the concern about the culture of violence in Jamaican dancehall…
Abstracts Museums, Slavery, and the Caribbean Exhibitionary Complex: Towards a Museology of Displacement by Wayne Modest 1 Mar 2018 This dissertation offers a reading in postcolonial museology or what I have called a museology of displacement. Taking the Caribbean museum and other exhibitionary institutions as the object of study,…
