DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto

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contentS liSt oF illuStrationS x liSt oF tableS xi acknowleDGmentS xii preFace xv out oF many . . . one DanceHall 1 Out of Many . . . Perspectives 3 Many “Relations of Abnormality” 9 One Dancehall from Slave Ship to Ghetto 17 introDucinG perFormance GeoGrapHy 29 A Performance Geography of the City 37 Select Citizenry, Select Spatiality 40 Bonds of Solidarity, Echoes of Community 47 The Social “Psychoscape” 48 perForminG GeoGrapHy in kinGSton’S DanceHall SpaceS 53 Blocking the Dancehall Stage 53 Mortimo Planno’s Experience as a Dance Promoter 57 Becoming a Venue: Time, Space and Location 58 California California at Rainbow Lawn 60 Venues Politicized: Hierarchy, Policing and Policy-making 62 Theorizing and Singing the Street 68 Classifying and Mapping Venues 75 Locating Halfway Tree 80 Conclusions 83 ritual Space, celebratory Space 87 A Reading of Ritual 89 Names, Times, Themes and Purposes 92 Major Types of Dance Event 98 Passa Passa 104 Bembe Thursday 108 British Link-up Events 110 Conclusions 115 GeoGrapHieS oF emboDiment—Dance, StatuS, Style 119 “Ol’ Time Somet’ing Come Back Again”: African and Other Continuities 121 The Role of the Dancer 123 Gerald “Bogle” Levy (1966–2005) 124 Reaping Rewards from Dancehall 130 Masking (the Body) in the Dance 132 Dancehall Queens 137 Gender Demarcations and Negotiations in Dance 140 A Preliminary Chronology 143 perForminG bounDaryleSSneSS 151 Boundarylessness and Boundedness 151 Buju Banton on Tour 154 Stone Love and Tony Matterhorn 161 Dancehall Queens beyond National Boundaries 163 Dancehall in Japan 164 From Bogle to Usain Bolt 166 Video Light and Spectacle 168 Conclusions 174 a common tranSnational Space 177 World Musics and the Black Atlantic 177 Common Genealogies: Kwaito 179 Common Genealogies: Reggaetón 185 Common Space: From Ghetto Streets to World Stage 188 Performing Geography, Performing Identity 191 reFerenceS 196 inDeX 211 ...