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White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation
- Author(s):
- Larisa Mann (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- Ethnomusicology, Law, Technology and Society, Music and Sound
- Subject(s):
- Performance, Technology, Caribbean Area, Area studies, Imperialism--Social aspects, Mass media--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Performance and technology, Caribbean studies, Colonialism and culture, Media studies, Emerging media
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/f6f1-cm98
- Abstract:
- This study explores Jamaican popular music's changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating visual media in global networks affect how Jamaicans perform identity. These technologies also affect street dances' social function, evoking race- and gender-related pressures that reinforce existing and historic inequalities, reshaping and limiting street dances' traditional function as a site of autonomy and resistance to colonial inequality. A better understanding of local practices can offer an alternative conceptual framework to help practitioners, scholars, and policy and technology designers avoid reinforcing those inequalities.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- Attribution
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