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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 (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Tao Leigh Goffe; Deborah A. Thomas This essay examines the political economy of Caribbean cultural capital and the formation of reggae in Jamaica in the 1950s. Through study of the Afro-Asian intimacies and tensions embedded in the sound of preindependence Jamaica, the essay traces the birth...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2002
... James), in Rough Guide to Reggae
ub submerges the reggae rhythm and lyric into abstraction, creating a nonverbal site
for the learning and consolidation of “dread” awareness. : e “dub organizer” con-
structs aesthetic space through a process of removal, alteration, and layering, where...
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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 (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 (2006) 10 (1): 59–73.
Published: 01 February 2006
... as they
interacted with the popular languages of St. Lucia and Barbados following the spread
of “the word” to those islands. Included in that paper is a discussion of the debt owed
to reggae music for the spread of the philosophy and language of Rastafari, mentioning
the more charismatic reggae exponents...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 174–185.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., reggaeton,
makossa, samba reggae, and Afro beat, among others. The risk is that readers could slip into a
kind of Dawesian reading: “Cooper is never exhaustive . . . the metaphor of forerunner who
clears the ground for more lasting cultivation suits Cooper’s work here very well. She manages
in each...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the case that the power of an audible, creole technopoetics, as best embodied by dub reggae, can remake our very conception of the human. In addition to dub, the author brings minstrelsy, blues, jazz, and the like into his broader discussion of black engagements with sound technologies, arguing...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
...-consciously invested in disturbing and disrupting cultural and linguistic shibboleths that accord epistemological nullity and ontological invalidity to Jamaican vernacular discourses such as Jamaican Creole/Patwa and the musical genres of reggae and dancehall. [email protected] © 2024 by Small...
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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 (2006) 10 (3): 150–160.
Published: 01 October 2006
... the dancehall
space, authoritative localized analysis is urgently needed to address inaccuracies and con-
structed discontinuities in Caribbean cultural chronologies arising from foreign sources. As
one of many possible examples, there is Roy Shuker’s puzzling description of reggae in Key
Concepts...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in this, though in the reggae musician’s case him was making space for a smoke break, announcing one album that many think is a break—or more like a letdown—from the revolutionary reggae of Rastaman Vibration and Exodus . A detour into the intimate, into love songs to woman, to Jah, to the holy herb...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tavia Nyong'o This essay reviews two recent publications in the area of black music and sound studies—Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011) and Alexander G. Weheliye's Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005)—taking...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Stratton, “Judge Dread: Music Hall Traditionalist or Postcolonial Hybrid,” Contemporary British History 28, no. 1 (2014): 81–102. 20 Kallyndyr and Dalrymple, Reggae , 13. 19 This was not, however, a view to which everyone subscribed at the time. The pamphlet was described as “a pretentious...
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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 (2003) 7 (1): 46–71.
Published: 01 March 2003
... world,” which necessitated that the fi lm be
“shot piecemeal, in fi ts and starts, with months intervening between shoots as additional
funds were scraped together Lloyd Bradley’s book Bass Culture: When Reggae Was
King (2000), however, quotes singer and actor Jimmy Cliff ’s references...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... routes of transmission, as when American R&B traveled to Jamaica and was reborn as Ska, which in turn gave rise to rock steady, reggae, dancehall.” 12 And, I would add, dub poetry. Situating dub poetry in this complex traffic of meanings that has long circulated throughout the black Atlantic world...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., and reggae and dancehall in films such as The
Harder They Come, Dancehall Queen, and Third World Cop, the visceral punch and gritty real-
ism of myriad reggae and dancehall lyrics, and the visual assault of Dawn Scott’s installation,
“A Cultural Object” (1985).
Like the above...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and how alien they may now be to those political expectations and aesthetic continuities that they in fact produced. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Afrofuturism creolization technopoetics Glissant roots reggae revival That The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 September 2001
... to produce ska. Distinct characteristics of reggae and dancehall
emerged in this period, including the sound system (amplifi ers and speakers), the selec-
tor (disc jockey) and the clash (competitive musical performance).
One of Stolzoff ’s most interesting points describes how dancehalls...
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