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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Jocelyn Sutton Franklin Focusing on the Haitian author Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s novel Dance on the Volcano (1957), this essay examines representations of an anxious White minority on the eve of the Haitian Revolution. It argues that Vieux-Chauvet deploys theatrical conventions to suggest that White...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
... Dance,” n.d., folder 11, box 30, CPL. 10 Chen Leyda, Footnote to History , 9. 9 Chen Leyda, Footnote to History , 2, 9, 10. Regarding the implications of Eugene Chen's career for the lives of his children, see Percy Chen, China Called Me: My Life Inside the Chinese Revolution (Boston...
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in Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 2 Members of the Joseph Chatoyer Dance Company participate in Garifuna Settlement Day at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 2014. Photograph courtesy of the author
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Published: 01 March 2015
“Still from Dance Scene,” Children of God , 2011. Director, Kareem Mortimer; Director of Photography, Ian Bloom.
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in The Tambourine Army: Sonic Disruptions and the Politics of Respectability
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 3 Members of dance troupe En Kompane. Photograph courtesy Taitu Heron, Tambourine Army.
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé An examination of the significance of dance performances in the demonstrations of the Puerto Rican summer of 2019, this essay argues that these performances belong to a history of irreverent, extravagant mourning gestures that periodically irrupt in Puerto Rican culture...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 140–144.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Alake Pilgrim Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Dancing with a Ball of Light
Alake Pilgrim
Dabadie, Trinidad - Second Place, Short Fiction
For David of Subero Street
There is a pattern of light that comes when you least expect it. You lie in bed, just opening
or closing your eyes. You...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of normative discourses in dancehall lyrics. I offer readings of male dance crews at street dances, a comedy interlude at a dancehall club night, and a dancehall video, each of which provides the opportunity to read “the queer” in dancehall culture. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Out and Bad: Toward...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Césaire explicitly builds her novel from the tales she has collected in her professional ethnographic research, the art of storytelling is only referred to indirectly and is built into a larger structure based on environment, music, rhythm, dance, and movement. These alliances between literature...
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in The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 Rex Nettleford in performance in Myal (chor. Rex Nettleford), 1974. Maria LaYacona Photography. Courtesy of the National Dance Theatre Company
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of which reveal the limitations of such a framing in illuminating the complexity of her political and artistic vision. 24 Donald McKayle, Transcending Boundaries: My Dancing Life (London: Routledge, 2004), 23. 23 Pearl Primus, oral history interview, 1993, Schomburg Center for the Research...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 125–139.
Published: 01 October 2006
... Wednesday night street dance, Passa Passa. This street dance epitomizes
the explosive creativity and paradoxical ambivalence of dancehall’s cultural creations which
simultaneously play with, against, and into the gendered, classed, and political structures of
Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2002
...
Dhe and his dancing faithful, having reconceived time and space, return to imaginary
African roots and ascend through and beyond the competitive pressures of Kingston’s
ghetto life. : e use of drum and bass in dub implicates the musically ritualized history
of African origins, exile...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... similitude. In this sentiment, she is beholden to both her own desire for Pan-African community and to white demands for an embodied display of her inner Africanity. John Martin, a prominent dance critic and New York Times columnist in the 1920s and 1930s, writes on “the essence of Negro dance” in a 1940...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in poetry, dance, and singing, the “true, true” calypsonians—to use a local
expression—are expected not only to produce their own material but also to be judged on
their own merits as solo artists in calypso competitions. Inspired by the musics that they have
listened to since the 1990s...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 174–185.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., “In the Shadow of (the Universal Other): Performative
Identifications with Jamaican Culture in Japan,” (PhD diss., UCLA, 2002); Beth-Sarah Wright, “Speaking the
Unspeakable: Politics of the Vagina, Memory and Dance in Dancehall Docu-Videos,” Discourses in Dance 2, no.
2 (2004): 45–60; and Sonjah...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Figure 2 Rex Nettleford in performance in Myal (chor. Rex Nettleford), 1974. Maria LaYacona Photography. Courtesy of the National Dance Theatre Company ...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 111–117.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., NO,
it is just ’til the still-being-born constitution
is born.
Dance, Girl, Dance
“Music—you can’t stop it.
It took a long time to get
these ready-to-give-up legs
here. Play...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
... While dining, a last-minute nighttime excursion was planned to visit
Kingston’s infamous passa passa, a weekly street dance where locals and their dons gather
in their blingiest finery to pose and hang out until daybreak. The adventure seemed like many
other occasions when it has been necessary...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., speech and especially musical performance. He describes the dancehall as “an
institution that generates, mediates, and reproduces the social order” (p. 227) and rivals
“offi cial” institutions such as schools, churches, and political parties (p. 66). At dance-
halls young people from opposites sides...
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