... Since the 1990s, videographers wielding video cameras crowned with a bright white light have become fixtures in Jamaica’s dancehalls. Dancers will often compete in hopes of attracting the attention of the videographer and consequently the bright light from their video camera, which is described...

... in search of a drug lord, killing an estimated 120 civilians in the process. Patterson’s detailed, filigreed, and ecstatic mixed media pieces render 72 of those deaths using the aesthetics of reggae’s young spawn, Jamaican dancehall. Patterson’s visual elegies articulate a future for diasporic belonging...

... photography Jamaica dancehall Ebony G. Patterson skin bleaching ...

... inter-American studies Jamaican dancehall music US-Caribbean relations Oliver Samuels exoticization ...

... caserío Mano Dura underground reggae en español dancehall hip-hop urban blackness diaspora ...

... This chapter details the emergence of underground, the precursor to reggaetón, as a cultural practice of diaspora. It begins with a discussion of U.S. hip-hop, Jamaican dancehall, and Panamanian reggae en español that were key influences in underground’s sound and diasporic and racial politics...