Dancehall in/securities : perspectives on Caribbean expressive life / edited by Patricia Noxolo, 'H' Patten and Sonjah Stanley Niaah.

Introduction / Patricia Noxolo, 'H' Patten and Sonjah Stanley Niaah -- Corporeal in/securities in the dancehall space / Patricia Noxolo -- Practice, vision, security / Orville Hall -- My badi a fe me BMW (my body is my BMW) : using the badi (body) to interrogate the shifting in/securities within the co-culture of daaance'all / L'Antoinette Stines -- You can play bass come out a mi studio : interrogating in/securities in the studios of Kingston / Dennis Howard -- The mask for survival : a discourse in dancehall regalia / MoniKa Lawrence -- Dancehall dancing bodies : the performance of embodied in/security / 'H' Patten -- Patsy Ricketts : an in/secure life in dance; thoughts on dancehall's in/secure lives / Patsy Rickett -- The warrior wine : the rotation of Caribbean masculinity / Thomas 'Talawa' Prestø -- 'Sounding' out the system : noise, in/security, and the politics of citizenship / Sonjah Stanley Niaah.

"This book focuses on how in/security works in and through Jamaican dancehall, and on the insights that Jamaican dancehall offers for the global study of in/security. This collection draws together a multi-disciplinary range of key scholars in in/security and dancehall. Scholars from the University of the West Indies Centre for Reggae Studies, as well as independent dancehall and dance practitioners from Kingston, writers from the UK, US, and continental Europe, offer their differently-situated perspectives on dancehall, its histories, its spatial patterning, its professional status, and its aesthetics. The study brings together critical security studies with dancehall studies and will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre, dance and performance studies, sociology, cultural geography, anthropology, post-colonial studies, diaspora studies, musicology, and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.