[ecrea] Release of DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto

>Announcing the release of....
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>DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto
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>BY SONJAH N. STANLEY NIAAH
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>African and Diasporic Cultural Studies Series, University of Ottawa Press
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>Cloth | $65.00 . 978-0-7766-3041-0
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>Paper | $29.95 . 978-0-7766-0736-8
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>6 Ã 9 . 244 pages . 20 black and white photographs
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>About DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto......
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>DanceHall combines cultural geography, 
>performance studies and cultural studies to 
>examine performance culture across the Black 
>Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its 
>prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web 
>of cultural practices, politics, rituals, 
>philosophies, and survival strategies that link 
>Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.
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>Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds 
>and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was 
>popularized in Jamaica during the later part of 
>the last century by artists such as Shabba 
>Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even 
>as its popularity grows around the world, a 
>detailed understanding of dancehall performance 
>space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author 
>Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall 
>emerged from the marginalized youth culture of 
>Kingstonâ¬"s ghettos and how it remains 
>inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its 
>performance culture and spaces a distinct 
>identity. She reveals how dancehallâ¬"s 
>migratory networks, embodied practice, 
>institutional frameworks, and ritual practices 
>link it to other musical styles, such as 
>American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin 
>American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is 
>part of a legacy that reaches from the dance 
>shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early 
>negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of 
>Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, 
>DanceHall stretches across the whole of the 
>Black Atlanticâ¬"s geography and history to 
>produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in 
>its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.
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>Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah is Lecturer in Cultural 
>Studies at the University of the West Indies at Mona.
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