"They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay /
Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson.
Bok Engelsk
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Utgitt | UWI PRESS
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Opplysninger | The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation -- "Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture -- Celebrating life, commemorating death : rites of passage -- "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culture -- "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity -- "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance -- "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals -- "De tune you playing no de one I dancing" : popular entertainment -- "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture -- "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities -- "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos -- "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war -- Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica.
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ISBN | 1-4619-0687-3
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