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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Nadia Ellis This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Avram Bornstein Small Axe Incorporated 2001 Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica
Avram Bornstein
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica. Norman Stolzoff . Durham:
Duke University Press, 2000. 298 pages.
ude boys and rastas, selectors, sound systems...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Patricia J. Saunders Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Is Not Everything Good to Eat,
Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and
Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace
Patricia J. Saunders
What is to stop the youths and them out of control
Full up with education, yet no earn a payroll...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jason Frydman This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s temporality, futurity, and ideological conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 125–139.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Donna P. Hope Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Passa Passa: Interrogating Cultural
Hybridities in Jamaican Dancehall
Donna P. Hope
Introduction
Contemporary dancehall culture is a cultural site for the creation and dissemination of symbols
and ideologies that reflect and legitimize...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 150–160.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Mike Alleyne Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large
Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large, Carolyn Cooper. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2004. ISBN: 1-4039-6425-4 (cloth); 1-4039-6424-6 (paper)
Inside Out: Dancehall...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Clashing Interpretations in
Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
In recent decades, dancehall music appears to have surpassed its predecessor, reggae, as
Jamaica’s major cultural export. In her recent collection...
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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 (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of the dancehall. It traces the dread body through the sounding of the single-multiple of the “I and I” and the dread for the Old Testament god of Jehovah, or Jah. Dread doubles and troubles. It is inflected and inflicted in two directions. One is dread of authority—whether the Greek god Apollo or Judge Dread...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) are read schematically as strategic interventions that privilege a multifarious disturbing and transgressive orality. Cooper’s work is deliberately and self...
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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 (2006) 10 (3): 186–192.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Idara Hippolyte Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Un-Theory
Idara Hippolyte
Sound Clash announces itself on page two as the culmination of Carolyn Cooper’s reflections
on Jamaican dancehall since her inaugural 1989 essay, “Slackness Hiding from Culture.”1 As
such, it invites...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the response to the diminishing “cultural product” coming out of popular music, that is, dancehall and the culture it promotes. 2 Bookman, in a June 2013 interview, explains, “Many people have lost interest in our cultural products, simply because they don't have access to the positive elements. I want...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
... are not capabilities that the sonic bodies of the dancehall can fail to reverberate to. The lower frequencies of black sounds studies, both books show, are also queer and feminist frequencies, which is evidenced by the “lower” realms of anality and invagination that are constantly evoked, disparaged, solicited...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
... refusals that are still necessary in an intellectual climate where the Caribbean continues to struggle against the hegemonizing demands of elite Pan-African solidarities. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Gordon Rohlehr dancehall feminism Black Atlantic reggae For years I...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... , and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer , the state of exception, and the biopolitical paradigm of the camp. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Notes on the Age of Dis:
Reading Kingston through Agamben...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Petrine Archer This article explores the repeating patterns of the subordinate colonial relationship using a handful of pictures that make links between slavery, pageantry, racial uplift, Jamaica's dancehall culture, and dress. Through a truncated discussion about the body, emasculation, clothing...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 205–207.
Published: 01 October 2006
... Dancehall Culture at Large (2004).
Ashley Dawson is associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City Uni-
versity of New York. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making
of Postcolonial Britain and co-editor of Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... the diminution of the “many.” She locates the culture of the African Jamaican majority at the very center of national consciousness. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Caribbean Creole languages Seventh-Day Adventist theology and practice reggae and dancehall culture Louise...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., and Indo-Chinese descent, who helped form the conditions of possibility for the production and global distribution of reggae. Thus the networks of Jamaican Chinese diasporic capital and talent, producing and performing, helped to engineer the electrical flows of reggae to rural areas and urban dancehall...
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