Abstracts Kingston’s Dancehall: A Story of Space and Celebration by Sonjah Stanley Niaah 1 Mar 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 Styling Identities Through Dress: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Jamaican Dance-Hall Dress by Shelley-Ann Morgan 1 Mar 2018 Dress as material culture allows the body to act as a platform upon which culture is performed both individually and collectively. Dress is the canvas upon which its wearer tells…
Abstracts Kingston’s Formal Christian Worship Spaces: An Exploration of Hierarchies and Aesthetic Distinctiveness by Winston Clifford Campbell 1 Mar 2018 This thesis argues that sites of Christian worship in Caribbean territories such as Jamaica are essential to any attempt at understanding the identity politics that govern daily life within the…
