David Austin is author of Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013), winner of the 2014 Casa de las Americas Prize, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018), and editor of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness (2018).
Carolyn Cooper is professor emerita in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she taught for many years. She is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1995) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) and editor of Global Reggae (2012). She initiated the establishment of the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In 2013 she was awarded the Order...
