DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto

INDEX

211 inDeX “f” refers to figure; “t” to table. a Above a Dem Crew (dancing crew), 47, 119 Ackee (DJ), 151 Ad Astra (club), 67, 78 African rituals, 89 traditions, xviii African/Caribbean Diasporic practice , 188 African Diaspora, 75, 87, 109, 121, 177, 184, 187, 193, 195 in the Caribbean, 31 culture, 15–16 practices, 87 African Diasporic cultural practices, 15–16 culture, 15–16 embodied practices, 87 embodiment, performance practice and memorializing, 11 identity, 6 movement patterns, 188 African Star (sound system), 102 Afro-Rican Bomba, 18 aids pandemic, 15–16 “Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But the Rent,” 107 Ajayi, Omofolabo, 135–36, 196 All-Deportee Friends and Family Link-Up, 104 The Alliance (DJ), 74, 99 All Jamaica Opportunity Hour Contest , 56f3.3 American big bands, 26 amusement arcades, 66 the angel (dance move), 142, 146–47 Anniversary dancers, 100–101 Appadurai, Arjun, 48, 196 Appliance Traders Complex, 79 Asantewa, Yaa, 137 Asfaw, Empress Menen (Dancehall Queen), 137 Assassin (DJ), 72, 196 Asylum (club), 26, 58, 68, 78, 80, 93–94, 101, 170 Asylum Ladies Night, 93 Atiko, Gyawu, 135 Attitude Girls, 119 Austin-Broos, Diane, 91, 196 Australian Dancehall Queen Contest , 164 b Baby Cham, 1, 70, 72–73, 196 Baby Grand, 78 ‘Babylonian,’ 4 “Babylon likkie likkie and beggie beggie,” 64 Backline events, 77, 92–93 the back to basics (dance move), 126 A Back to School Treat, 100 “badmanship,” 73 Bad Mind Sunday, 94 Bailey, Richie “Feelings,” 108–9, 196 Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi, 8, 134, 196 Baltimore link-up, 104 Banton, Buju about, xv, 3, 9, 48, 63, 114, 126–27, 186, 198 Friends for Life Tour, schedule for, 156–57t6.1 Rasta Got Soul Tour, schedule for, 158–59t6.3 role as translocal and transnational actor, 154 Too Bad Tour, schedule for, 157–58t6.2 on tour, 154–60 Baraka, Amiri index 212 Blues People: Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed From It, 17, 21, 24–25, 146–47, 196 “Improvisations on ‘Wise, Why’s, Y’z’ (excerpts from Africa Section )”, 192–93, 196 Baron’s Plaza, 79 Barrow, Steve, 4, 196 “bashment,” 111 Baskin (dancer), 119–20, 122, 166–67 Bass Odyssey (sound system), 103 Batchame Lawn, 57 Baxter, Ivy, 2, 146, 196 B. B. King’s Blues Club, 158t6.2 “Beat Street,” 77 Beckles, Hilary, 15, 21, 197 Beenie Man (Moses Davis) (DJ), 11, 112, 114, 126–27, 129, 145, 152, 171, 197 Beijing Olympic Games, 33, 129, 166–67 Belly (Williams), 128 Bembe Squad, 108 Bembe Thursdays, 94, 108–10, 142 Bennett, Andy, 8, 197 bet. See Black Entertainment Television (bet) Beverly Hamilton, 2 Biggy Smalls, 74 Big Youth (DJ), 70, 152 Birthday Bash, 103 birthday bash events, xv, 9, 65, 88, 98–99 Black(s) aids cases, 16 Codes, New Orleans, 21 Diaspora performance practice, 15 employment, 21 female body, dancing, 5, 8 free, 107 masculinity, dominant, 6 migrants, 23 in the Mississippi Delta, 23 musical idioms, 15 performance practices, 34, 99, 179 performance practices, church/state collusion around, 25 popular culture, 69 Black Atlantic as “counterculture of modernity,” 34 experiential contexts, historical and political, 32 performance-scapes, 83 spaces with different names, 24 world, xii, 17, 24, 34, 88, 90, 191, 193 Black Blingers (dancers), 47, 119, 129 Black Entertainment Television (bet), 128 Black Roses Crew (dancing crew), 97, 100, 125 Blake, Winston, 54, 79 “Blasé,” 62, 107, 200 Blazay (male dancer), 129 “bling bling,” 111 block parties, 70 Blue Mist, 78 Blue Mountain Inn, 78 blues about, 18, 23, 25–26, 70, 147, 177, 195 crossroads, 24 culture, 24 dances, 18, 26, 124 as a form of musical expression, 23 music, 24 origin in slavery, 24 performances, 24–25 performers, 23 weekend, 25 Blues Busters, 26, 56f3.3 “blues moves,” 119 “blues people,” 23 Blues People: Negro Experience in White America and the Music that Developed From It (Baraka), 17, 21, 24–25, 146–47, 196 index 213 “body basics of dancehall,” 113 Bodyguard (sound system), 102 the bogle (dance move), 126, 142 “Bogle Dance,” 126, 198 bogle dance (move), 142, 143t5.1 Bogle (dancer) (Gerald Levy), 38, 100, 119, 124–30, 137, 140, 142, 162, 166–68 Bolt, Usain, 33, 166–68 bonds of solidarity, 14, 47, 172, 189 booth dances, 23 “Bop Campbell” (Olanzo Hawk), xii, 48, 67, 103 Born in jahpan (documentary film), 165 Bounti Killa (DJ), xv, 38, 74, 90, 99, 102–3, 114, 127, 140, 197...