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in Pays-là chaviré : Revolutionary Politics in Nineteenth-Century Haitian Creole Popular Music
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2016
“Blanc-Français”; music transcribed by the author. From Jean Prax, “Ahiti: Etudes sur la civilisation des Noirs” (unpublished manuscript, dated 1857), 717. By permission of the Archives diplomatiques, Ministère des affaires étrangères, La Courneuve, France
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 164–174.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Celeste Fraser Delgado This essay, a response to Alexandra T. Vazquez's Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke, 2013), follows Vazquez's lead to “listen in detail” to two ongoing musical projects, conceived and executed in the Little Havana nightclub known as Hoy Como Ayer...
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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 (2005) 9 (1): 40–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Jocelyne Guilbault Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Audible Entanglements:
Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad’s
Calypso Music Scene
Jocelyne Guilbault
n 1963 the Mighty Sparrow was crowned calypso king when he performed the song
“Kennedy.” In newly independent Trinidad...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jocelyne Guilbault In this essay, I focus on soca, a music that has been criticized by numerous journalists, academics, calypsonians, politicians, and listeners for not engaging the political. Instead of dismissing soca as a legitimate critical public discourse, I address soca in relation to its...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 109–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on Brazilian racial identities and cultural politics. In conclusion, it proposes that Hall was a thinker whose occasionally preacherlike style indicated an openness to his audience and whose writing was structured like music. But these are still protocols for reading texts and, as such, are not able...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
...“Blanc-Français”; music transcribed by the author. From Jean Prax, “Ahiti: Etudes sur la civilisation des Noirs” (unpublished manuscript, dated 1857), 717. By permission of the Archives diplomatiques, Ministère des affaires étrangères, La Courneuve, France ...
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 9 Wife and husband cofounders of the music label VP Records, Patricia “Miss Pat” Chin and Vincent “Randy” Chin, in their shop, Randy’s Record Mart, in Kingston, Jamaica, 1958. Courtesy of VP Records
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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 (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 185–193.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alexandra T. Vazquez Alexandra T. Vazquez hopes that her Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke, 2013) can be a historical contribution to the work now being done in the fresh waves of Miami studies. At the generous urging of reviewers Alejandra Bronfman, Celeste Fraser Delgado...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Through her bomba and plena compositions, she helped forge modern black Puerto Rican music amid the rapid industrialization of Puerto Rico after the 1950s. However, her story has been overshadowed by the aura of her son, the legendary Afro–Puerto Rican singer Ismael “Maelo” Rivera (1931–87). Although Doña...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alejandra Bronfman This short essay is a response to Alexandra T. Vazquez's Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke, 2013). It aims to recreate the experience of reading the book and the transformation in listening that the book prompted. Written in both personal and academic...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Kezia Page This essay explores the roots of the reggae revival in Jamaica. It considers what it means that the revival is not singularly located in music and sound but that revivalists imagine an artistic community and aesthetic that includes a number of other art forms as well. Through a close...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Petra R. Rivera-Rideau In 2012, reggaeton artist Tego Calderón released a music video for his song “Robin Hood.” The video tells the story of a man who aids a group of undocumented Dominican immigrants to Puerto Rico. Through a close reading of “Robin Hood,” this essay argues that Calderón...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Wayne Marshall This essay responds to Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by highlighting the book’s crucial musical threads in order to examine how it reorients specific histories of black music, offers new openings for musicology and sound studies, and makes...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mark Harris This essay asks how the soundscapes represented in Caribbean literature and music provide alternative paradigms for conceptualizing noise and silence. As American and European sound studies have drawn from the writings of John Cage, Murray Schafer, and Jacques Attali to articulate...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of a charged, explicit, and heightened sense of racial identity among young black Britons. This essay seeks to reflect on the influence of Jamaican 1970s on the creation of a second diaspora. In so doing, it utilizes examples of British reggae music, a photograph by Vanley Burke, and the poetry of Linton Kwesi...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 66–87.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Ama Few Jamaican visual artists have been able to capture the quintessence of Jamaican identity in the way that Ras Daniel Heartman did, exposing powerful images of Rastafari that are unequalled in any genre. While reggae music provided a soundtrack to the conscious struggle for self-determination...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 July 2009
....” This essay agrees with Price's argument against the starkly opposed positions of the past, but proposes that it may be too early to lay this continuing debate entirely to rest. Using music as a point of departure, it argues that experiential understandings that privilege cultural continuity, if properly...
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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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