Noises in the blood: orality, gender and the 'vulgar' body of Jamaican popular culture
In: Warwick University Caribbean Studies
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In: Warwick University Caribbean Studies
In: Small axe: a journal of criticism, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 215-225
ISSN: 1534-6714
The cantankerous public discourse generated by the author's bilingual newspaper columns published in the Jamaica Observer (May 1993 to January 1998) and the Jamaica Gleaner (March 2013 to the present) illustrates the conservative, neocolonial language ideology that still prevails in Jamaica. The essay demonstrates how contestations around national identity are articulated in a repressive language of moral authority. Speakers of "good" (English) and "bad" (Jamaican) language varieties become embattled in a struggle for the control of public terrain. The essay concludes that the "bilingual" model of Jamaican/English language identity has very little currency in a society that still privileges the "command" of English as a sign of the intellectual abilities of its habitual speakers/writers and that disparages competence in Jamaican as a marker of intellectual deficiency. Nevertheless, the author sees hopeful signs that the Jamaican language is gradually gaining national prominence.
Rebel Music", from the 1974 Natty Dread album, is a classic articulation of Marley's liberatory politics. Though the album credits state that the song was written by Aston Barrett and Hugh Peart, the vision is unquestionably Marley's. "Rebel Music" both roadblock and curfew become symbols of a larger system of brutality with its roots in plantation slavery. ; "Rebel Music", del álbum de 1974 Natty Dread, es un clásico de la articulación política liberadora de Marley. Aunque los créditos del álbum afirman que la canción fue escrita por Aston Barrett y Hugh Peart, la visión es, sin duda, de Marley. En "Rebel Music" los toques de queda y las restricciones de movilidad se convierten en símbolos de un sistema más amplio de brutalidad con sus raíces en la esclavitud en las plantaciones.
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Rebel Music", from the 1974 Natty Dread album, is a classic articulation of Marley's liberatory politics. Though the album credits state that the song was written by Aston Barrett and Hugh Peart, the vision is unquestionably Marley's. "Rebel Music" both roadblock and curfew become symbols of a larger system of brutality with its roots in plantation slavery.
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