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"They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay / Brian L. Moore and Michele A. Johnson

Johnson, Michele A. ; Moore, Brian L., 1948-

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011

Online Ressource (xii, 580 p.) : ill.

Englisch

The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation'Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture -- Celebrating life, commemorating death: rites of passage -- "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culure -- "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity -- "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance -- "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals -- "De tune you playing no de one I dancing": popular entertainment -- "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture -- "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities -- "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos -- "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war -- Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 541-566) and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: "They do as they please

978-1-4619-0687-2 ( : electronic bk.); 1-4619-0687-3 (electronic bk.)

976-640-244-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 976-640-245-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-976-640-244-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-976-640-245-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 759520233     

OCoLC: 759520233 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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Moore and Johnson argue that although a vibrant and fully functional creole culture existed in Jamaica, after Morant Bay, diverse elements within the upper and middle classes (the cultural elites) formed a coalition to eradicate that "barbaric" culture which they believed had contributed to the uprising, and to replace it with "superior" cultural items imported from Victorian Britain in order to "civilize" and anglicize the people. It reinforces the prime thesis of Neither Led nor Driven that the lower classes, the main targets of this campaign, drew on their own Afro-creole cultural heritage to resist and ignore the new elite cultural agenda; but they did selectively embrace some aspects of the imported Victorian culture which they creolized to fit their own cultural matrix. Ultimately, the cultural elite efforts at "reform" were hampered by their own ambivalence, hypocrisy and disunity, and they actually impeded the sponsored process of anglicization. --

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The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation -- 'Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture -- Celebrating life, commemorating death: rites of passage -- "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culure -- "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity -- "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance -- "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals -- "De tune you playing no de one I dancing": popular entertainment -- "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture -- "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities -- "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos -- "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war -- Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica.