ISBN:
0822347059
,
0822347229
,
9780822347057
,
9780822347224
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xiv, 299 p.))
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Babylon East
DDC:
306.4/842460952
Keywords:
Subculture
;
Popular culture
;
Rastafari movement
;
Japan Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
An ethnographic analysis of the Japanese embrace of dancehall reggae and other elements of Jamaican culture, including Rastafari, roots reggae, and dub music
Description / Table of Contents:
The politics of presence : performing blackness in JapanMusic 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.
Note:
Description based on print version record
,
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index
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