"They do as they please": the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay
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1. Verfasser: Moore, Brian L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Kingston, Jamaica University of the West Indies Press 2011
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-566) and index
The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation -- 'Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture -- Celebrating life, commemorating death: rites of passage -- "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culure -- "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity -- "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance -- "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals -- "De tune you playing no de one I dancing": popular entertainment -- "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture -- "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities -- "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos -- "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war -- Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 580 p.)
ISBN:1461906873
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9781461906872
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