Sterling Babylon East

Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9273-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

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An ethnographic analysis of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and other elements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sterling, Marvin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction

1. The Politics of Presence: Performing Blackness in Japan

2. Music and Orality: Authenticity in Japanese Sound System Culture

3. Fashion and Dance: Performing Gender in Japan's Reggae Dance Scene

4. Body and Spirit: Rastafarian Consciousness in Rural Japan

5. Text and Image: Bad Jamaicans, Tough Japanese, and the Third World "Search for Self"

6. Jamaican Perspectives on Jamaican Culture in Japan

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marvin D. Sterling is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.