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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and thus the way the audience experiences time, sped up or slowed down. Altering tempo in addition to rewinding or pulling up and adding echoes and reverberations are signature techniques of Jamaican deejaying that were developed in these spaces. Sound studies scholars Julian Henriques and Louis Chude...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the authority of English as our exclusive voice of scholarship” (91). Patwa Jamaican language Jumiekan orthography novel craft Jamaican sound studies Excuse me while I try my tongue. Yes, you supposed to hear the opening lyrics of Bob Marley’s “Easy Skanking” on him 1978 Kaya album...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of Jamaican Popular Culture (London: Macmillan, 1993); and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). 2 Cooper submitted a formal proposal for an academic unit devoted to the study of reggae music and culture in the Faculty of Humanities and Education...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 193–204.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Carolyn Cooper Small Axe Incorporated 2006 At the Crossroads—
Looking for Meaning in Jamaican
Dancehall Culture: A Reply
Carolyn Cooper
In the introduction to Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large I make my position
clear:
In the present study I document...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Pamela O'Gorman, “An Approach to the Study of Jamaican Popular Music,” Jamaican Journal 6, no. 4 (1972): 7, 50. See also Carolyn Cooper, Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). 12 Barry Chevannes, “New Approaches to Rastafari,” in Barry Chevannes...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... violence, state destabilization, and economic collapse within the Jamaican state). Using an idea of sound as a marker of ideological projection and political possibility, this essay considers how forms of black political representation and national liberation move across geographic spaces and can represent...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
... historians have dubbed radio's “Golden Age,” Jamaicans could listen to music, news, serials, and advertisements all day long, if they so chose. 5 In my research on media in the Caribbean, I draw from case studies in Kingston, Havana, Port-au-Prince, Santiago, and Cap-Haïtien in an effort to think...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 59–73.
Published: 01 February 2006
... presence of the sound /ai/ so important to the Rastafari, in the phrase,
complicates matters here. In fact this phrase could well be included in the category to be
described next. A similar response to Jamaican pronunciation was noted in the Barbados
data, where Itall became Hightall and bred its...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 150–160.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., particularly
from a linguistic perspective. Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large is arguably
the cutting edge of the current phase in Caribbean cultural studies, challenging inordinately
hegemonic textual readings, while simultaneously underscoring the centrality of text-cen-
tered analysis...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
... garrison politics, and the CIA’s drug-fueled campaign of political destabilization. A Brief History pushes against the narrow geopolitical confines of area studies by inserting Jamaica’s socialist moment into a global Cold War frame. Furthermore, the novel uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of essays written over the last decade
entitled Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large, Carolyn Cooper continues the
project she began in what is arguably the first seminal essay on dancehall culture.1 In this latter
collection, Cooper offers the model of clash as a way of thinking through...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 46–71.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to a screenplay:
“Chris Blackwell gave me a script for the fi lm and tell me that same guy [Perry Hen-
zell] now want me to play the lead part Other recent studies of Jamaican dancehall
culture and cinema have emphasized that the fi lm was shot without a script. Norman
C. Stolzoff ’s book Wake the Town...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Cooper, Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Gordon Rohlehr dancehall feminism Black Atlantic reggae For years I have been telling graduate students who study Caribbean literature...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... University Press, 1999), 261. 4 William Gibson, Neuromancer (New York: Ace, 1984). 5 Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007); Ray Hitchins, Vibe Merchants: The Sound Creators of Jamaican Popular Music...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 186–192.
Published: 01 October 2006
... that is not admissible in the untheo-
retical framework chosen. It seems that the status as local and as primary text can operate as
a straightjacket of possibilities for the Jamaican dancehall subject matter in the context of the
studies explored in Sound Clash. The many references to explanatory...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 174–185.
Published: 01 October 2006
... studies and postmodern inter-
pretations in particular, mapping speaks to territory as much as to reality, representation, and
articulation. Using the metaphor of the map for books on culture, it is important to explain
the conceptual territory Cooper’s Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., in
order to illustrate the way dub music deeply refl ects Jamaican subaltern experience and
cultural identity. I plan to examine the dance as the key site where an ethic is physically
and mentally juggled between the musicians’ sound system and the dancers’ physical
movements...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 124–137.
Published: 01 November 2017
... segments of complaints from callers about garbage collection and other issues, and recordings of community groups. Both of them are literally helping to create the sound of sovereignty, like other London-trained black Jamaican women working in radio and theater before them, such as Una Marson and Louise...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2016
... research on the island in the 1910s and 1920s, observes in Black Roadways: A Study of Jamaican Folklife (1929), “Cudjoe” is, following a tradition originating from the Akan culture of West Africa, a nickname in Jamaica for males born on Monday. 50 But the name's customary history hardly tempers its...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 42–55.
Published: 01 July 2010
...’ believe wah happen
to me last night!” He gets a chance to relate his own narrative, even though it goes unheard
in the film. The taxi driver highlights that sound signifiers are an important element of repre-
senting Jamaicans in cinema. Even more so than visuals, his speech locates the Rastaman...
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