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White Faces in Intimate Spaces: Jamaican Popular Music in Global Circulation

Author(s) -

Mann Larisa Kingston

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

communication, culture & critique

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1753-9137

pISSN - 1753-9129

DOI - 10.1111/cccr.12106

Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , lyrics , sociology , colonialism , autonomy , inequality , identity (music) , dance , affect (linguistics) , social inequality , gender studies , white (mutation) , media studies , aesthetics , visual arts , political science , art , biochemistry , gene , biology , ecology , mathematical analysis , chemistry , literature , mathematics , communication , law

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.

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