King Yellowman

Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture

Brent Hagerman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2021
University of the West Indies Press (Verlag)
978-976-640-851-0 (ISBN)

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Offers the first serious study of one Jamaica's most significant artists - and dancehall’s first major international star. This is a critical biography designed to satisfy fans while furthering academic discourse on dancehall by offering a new perspective on the way Yellowman negotiates the slackness/culture binary in Jamaican music.

Jamaican deejay
Yellowman divided a country with his bawdy songs and his very body: he has been
wildly popular among dancehall fans, yet widely despised by polite society. Even
though his contribution to Jamaican musical culture is immense, scholars have
ignored him and reggae histories have largely misunderstood him.

King Yellowman: Meaningful
Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture is the first serious study of one Jamaica's most significant artists
and dancehall’s first major international star. It is a critical biography designed
to satisfy fans while furthering academic discourse on dancehall by offering a
new perspective on the way Yellowman negotiates the slackness/culture binary in
Jamaican music.

Based on years of ethnographic
fieldwork, Brent Hagerman begins with the compelling story of Winston Foster’s
early life as an abandoned ghetto outcast and his hard-fought journey to become
the King of Dancehall, then goes on to a critical exploration of the
marginalization of people with albinism in Jamaica and the use of slackness in
Caribbean music. Through slackness and his mobilization of Rastafarian symbols,
Yellowman subverts embedded Jamaican cultural notions of sexuality, gender, and
race to overcome his cultural displacement, promote his yellow body as sexually
appealing and forge a place for himself among the Jamaican body politic.

Brent Hagerman is a lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, where he teaches courses on the intersection of popular music culture and religion. He is the author of Bob Marley: All That’s Left to Know about the King of Reggae.

Prefaceix

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction1

Part 1. The Life and Times of Yellowman

1Abandoned: The Early Life of Winston “Yellowman” Foster, 1957–197119

2From Alpha to Eventide: The Teenage Years, 1971–197630

3Ranking Dundus: Breaking into the Music Business, 1977–197846

4Mad over Me: Tastee Talent Competition to Aces International, 1979–198174

5Ram Jam Master, 198194

6Jamaica Proud of Me, 1982127

7King Yellowman, 1983–1984150

8Can’t Hide from Jah: Encounters with Religion178

9Sufferation, That’s All I Know: Cancer, 1985192

10Message to the World: Prayer and More Slackness200

Part 2. Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture

11Yellowman, Race, Sex and Masculinity225

12Yellowman in Reggae Histories and Scholarship248

13Yellowman, Slackness and Social Critique286

14Yellowman as Moral Regulator296

15Yellowman, Sex and Religion313

Conclusion335

Appendix 1: “Galong Galong Galong”339

Appendix 2: Selected Album Covers341

Notes347

References357

Index369

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2021
Verlagsort	Kingston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	976-640-851-3 / 9766408513
ISBN-13	978-976-640-851-0 / 9789766408510
Zustand	Neuware