Jamaican Diaspora: Romain Virgo

Jamaican Diaspora: Romain Virgo
Author: Janice Maxwell
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2016-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 136515632X

Why is Jamaica a unique place? It is the birthplace of reggae, which is the only music genre that is played on every continent. Thanks to our reggae ambassador. We created the world's fastest man - Usain Bolt. However, there is much more to Jamaica than sports and music. Explore our publications to learn more about this Caribbean island.This magazine affirms identity and builds community self-esteem.

Wooden Eyes

Wooden Eyes
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231119603

Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.

More Myself

More Myself
Author: Alicia Keys
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250153301

An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians in the world, Alicia Keys has enraptured the globe with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache—over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized her early career, the loss of privacy surrounding her romantic relationships, and the oppressive expectations of female perfection. Since Alicia rose to fame, her public persona has belied a deep personal truth: she has spent years not fully recognizing or honoring her own worth. After withholding parts of herself for so long, she is at last exploring the questions that live at the heart of her story: Who am I, really? And once I discover that truth, how can I become brave enough to embrace it? More Myself is part autobiography, part narrative documentary. Alicia’s journey is revealed not only through her own candid recounting, but also through vivid recollections from those who have walked alongside her. The result is a 360-degree perspective on Alicia’s path, from her girlhood in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem to the process of growth and self-discovery that we all must navigate. In More Myself, Alicia shares her quest for truth—about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth. With the raw honesty that epitomizes Alicia’s artistry, More Myself is at once a riveting account and a clarion call to readers: to define themselves in a world that rarely encourages a true and unique identity.

King Yellowman

King Yellowman
Author: Brent Hagerman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2021-08-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9789766408510

DanceHall

DanceHall
Author: Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2010-10-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0776619047

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance. Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston’s ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall’s migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic’s geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces.

Female Bodybuilders

Female Bodybuilders
Author: Martin Schoeller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2008
Genre: Photography of women
ISBN:

An extraordinary series of portraits of female body builders by renowned photographer and artist Martin Schoeller.

Dancehall

Dancehall
Author: Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9789766407506

Dancehall: A Reader on Jamaican Music and Culture contextualizes the emergence of the globally popular dancehall genre, while tracing the complex and often contradictory aspects of its evolution, dispersion and politics. This collection of foundational essays places dancehall in context with cutting-edge analyses of performance modes and expression, genre development, and impact in the wider local, regional and international socio-political milieu of struggles by black Jamaicans in particular and cultural adherents more broadly. Dancehall is one of eight musical genres created in Jamaica and, in the past two decades, it has become one of the most influential Jamaican cultural exports since reggae. The impact of dancehall extends far beyond Jamaica and is evident in music genres (such as hip hop, trip hop, jungle, reggaeton, South African kwaito and Nigerian Afrobeats) and international fashion, film and dance. This interdisciplinary volume documents various aspects of dancehall's global impact, evolution and influence in gender, political economy, geography, ethnomusicology, spirituality, music production, fashion and language. Each selection interrogates the range of meanings ascribed to dancehall culture, a phenomenon which has been seen to be associated with violence, crime and debauchery. This collection exposes the immense cultural work towards self-expression and identity in post-colonial Jamaica which takes shape through dancehall and the contributors apply a new level of seriousness, depth and academic rigour to dancehall studies.

The Metamorphoses of Fat

The Metamorphoses of Fat
Author: Georges Vigarello
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231159765

Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.

Modern Blackness

Modern Blackness
Author: Deborah A. Thomas
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2004-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822334194

DIVAn ethnographic study of cultural policy in Jamaica as seen from above and below in relation to race, class, and nation./div