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  1. Nov 2, 2008 · The photographs in Beth Lesser’s new coffee-table book, Dancehall: The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture, depict a society so obsessed by music and so suffused with a can-do, DIY spirit that its disproportionate presence on the world stage seems inevitable.

  2. Nov 3, 2023 · The acclaimed, definitive and essential guide to 1980s Jamaican Dancehallfeaturing hundreds of photographs with interviews and biographies. This widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle.

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  3. Jun 23, 2000 · Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a lively, nuanced, and comprehensive view of this musical and cultural phenomenon: its growth and historical role within Jamaican society, its ...

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    • Norman C. Stolzoff
    • Norman C. Stolzoff
  4. The acclaimed, definitive and essential guide to 1980s Jamaican Dancehallfeaturing hundreds of photographs with interviews and biographies. This widely admired book, back in print with a new introduction, captures a previously unseen era of musical culture, fashion and lifestyle.

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  5. New edition of the definitive cultural reference book for Jamaican dancehall and features hundreds of killer photographs, extensive text and interviews with many of the artists. ‘A vibrant anthology of all that mattered: the sound systems, studios, producers, singers and deejays.’.

  6. Nov 3, 2023 · Dancehall is an essential reference book for anyone interested in Reggae, as well as a unique photographic and textual source book of the musical, cultural and political life of Jamaica.

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  8. Stolzoff argues that this enormously popular musical genre expresses deep conflicts within Jamaican society, not only along lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, and religion but also between...

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