Marvin D Sterling

Babylon East

Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Marvin D. Sterling sensitively portrays the wide range of Japanese reggae dancehall practitioners, from chart-topping stars such as Miki Dōzan to underground pioneers such as Rankin' Taxi, as well as Junko Kudo, the unlikely winner of Jamaica's premier dance-diva contest. Along the way, we get to know the urban musicians who make up the traveling groups known as sound systems, as well as 'Japanese Rastafari' in the countryside. By considering Japanese youth who travel to Jamaica on journeys of self-discovery and the Jamaicans who sometimes look ambivalently on the explosion of the reggae scene in Japan, Sterling completes an engaging circle of analysis in this fascinating and insightful book."--Ian Condry, author of "Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347224
• ISBN-10: 0822347229
• Artikelnr.: 28034106

Autorenporträt

Marvin D. Sterling

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
1. The Politics of Presence: Performing Blackness in Japan
2. Music and Orality: Authenticity in Japanese Sound System Culture
3. Fashion and Dance: Performing Gender in Japan's Reggae Dance Scene
4. Body and Spirit: Rastafarian Consciousness in Rural Japan
5. Text and Image: Bad Jamaicans, Tough Japanese, and the Third World
"Search for Self"
6. Jamaican Perspectives on Jamaican Culture in Japan
Notes
Bibliography
Index