DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto

Sonjah Stanley Niaah · University of Ottawa Press · 2010 · Originally in English · scholarly

The definitive scholarly map of Jamaican dancehall venues, moves, and the people who made them.

About the author

The author is a Jamaican scholar engaged in ethnographic and historical work on Caribbean performance. The fact of their Jamaican positionality is significant to the work's epistemology—the author writes from within the culture being studied, with access to community knowledge, venue networks, and performer relationships that an outside observer would lack. This positioning shapes both the work's credibility within dancehall communities and its intervention in scholarship that had often treated Caribbean dance from an external, anthropological standpoint.

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