Musical play across ethnic boundaries in western Jamaica

Bibliographic Data

ID5800937
AuthorsRonald Dickerson (Louisiana State University Agricultural Center)
Year2004
Publication date2004-05-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeTHESIS
PublisherLouisiana State University Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31390/gradschool_theses.1865
OpenAlexW2800143818
LanguageEN
References cited17

An ethnography of music, ritual, and festival in western Jamaica, this thesis reports on fieldwork performed in St. Elizabeth and St. James Parishes between June 2002 and January 2003. Featured field sites include rural dancehall events, Kumina performances, Accompong Town's Maroon Heritage Festival, and a Rastafarian music and nutrition festival called "The Supper of Rastafari." Building an account of these and other sites of cultural performance, this study focuses on social connections between groups of participants, traced through poetic, historical, and personal relationships among performers, especially across boundaries of ethnic, stylistic, or religious difference within Jamaica's national cultural identity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Dance · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Field research · Geography · Maroon · Musical · Sociology · Tourism · Visual arts · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History

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