Taylor & Francis

Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Art, The arts: general issues
ISBN13: 9780367539696
Published: 31 Mar 2022

Format - Hardback
By 'H' Patten

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Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance

Regular price A$227.20
Sale price A$227.20 Regular price A$284.00
Product description

This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression.

This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.

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