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Babylon East : performing, dancehall, roots reggae, and Rastafari in Japan / Marvin D. Sterling.

By: Publication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.Description: xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822347057
  • 0822347059
  • 9780822347224
  • 0822347229
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/842460952 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2532.R7 S74 2010
Other classification:
  • 73.53
Contents:
The politics of presence : performing blackness in Japan -- Music and orality : authenticity in Japanese sound system culture -- Fashion and dance : performing gender in Japan's reggae dance scene -- Body and spirit : Rastafarian consciousness in rural Japan -- Text and image : bad Jamaicans, tough Japanese, and the third world "search for self" -- Jamaican perspectives on Jamaican culture in Japan.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.

The politics of presence : performing blackness in Japan -- Music and orality : authenticity in Japanese sound system culture -- Fashion and dance : performing gender in Japan's reggae dance scene -- Body and spirit : Rastafarian consciousness in rural Japan -- Text and image : bad Jamaicans, tough Japanese, and the third world "search for self" -- Jamaican perspectives on Jamaican culture in Japan.

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