Автор: Dacosta, Glen Peters, Dave Название: This is reggae ISBN: 1476691649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476691640 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31410.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: For more than six decades, Reggae legend Glen daCosta has worked as a musician, songwriter and producer. As a session player, his distinctive sax sound backed many international Reggae stars at Joe Gibbs' Studio and Lee Scratch Perry's Blackheart Studio. Twenty-two years in the writing, his revealing memoir gives an insider's view of the Jamaican popular music industry, and recounts his fascinating childhood and years on the road with Bob Marley and the Wailers and Zap Pow.
Автор: Patten, `h` Название: Reading religion and spirituality in jamaican reggae dancehall dance ISBN: 0367539691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367539696 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 137810.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression.This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.
Автор: Melville Daniel Archer Название: Lost Stitches: The Bostitch Legacy and My Crazy Jamaican Family ISBN: 9768286245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789768286246 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 29050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Danny Melville was content with his laid-back life in Jamaica. He spent his days playing polo with friends and other locals at his famed Chukka Cove, sipping on rum or maybe a Red Stripe, and living every day to the fullest. He knew how fortunate he was to have this life of privilege, which came from old family money: a legacy from his American great-grandfather Thomas Briggs, who over a hundred years ago perfected and mass-produced the stapling machine and made his Boston Wire Stitcher Company, which came to be known as Bostitch, a household name worldwide.
Beyond that, though, Danny knew little about Briggs, Briggs's daughter Berenice (Danny's grandmother), or any other relatives outside his own immediate family, for that matter. And in all honesty, he really wasn't all that curious about it - until the day a stranger walked onto his polo grounds looking for him. That's when a seed was sown. The man knew a lot about Danny's family history - and wanted to tell him all about it. He especially wanted to tell Danny about the secret life of the man Berenice had married: Danny's grandfather, Harold Melville. What the stranger revealed was so shocking that Danny would eventually be drawn into a tangled family web that he became determined to unravel.
Lost Stitches is a remarkable book that's part family memoir - full of family intrigue and heartbreak - part American history, part romance, and part love-letter to Jamaica. Told in a heartfelt yet humble, candid and relatable way, Danny recounts the amazing legacy of great-grandfather Thomas Briggs and how it was that his heiress daughter, a debutante of Boston society, came to marry Danny's grandfather Harold Melville and move with him to Jamaica to raise a family. Then there are the scandalous stories told of 'The Major' - grandfather Harold Melville, and his seemingly many progenies within and outside his marriage; the tragic stories of the Bostitch sisters Helen and Berenice; of kissing cousins Harold and Josephine, outside families and children, lawsuits and affairs. Danny speaks openly about privilege, legitimacy, prejudice, colour, and class and gives a rare glimpse into the high society lives of white colonial and post colonial Jamaicans.
As Danny puts together the puzzle of his ancestry, his admiration for his great-grandfather, Thomas Briggs grows with every piece of newly traced information. Not so for his grandfather, Harold, who turns out to be a pretty unlikeable character. But his grandmother Berenice is someone Danny wishes he could know better. And ultimately, getting to meet them all through exhaustive research and interviews, Danny learns a lot about himself. He understands why he has done certain things, and behaved in certain ways.
Lost Stitches is more than a reclamation of family history. It is a story of generations and of both the Bostitch and Jamaican histories.
Автор: Jacqueline A. Coore-Hall Название: Feminist Advocacy and Activism in State Institutions ISBN: 3030346781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030346782 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Combining feminist theory with a detailed view of Jamaican Parliamentary procedure and debate, this book will be useful to students and researchers interested in feminist advocacy and activism, minority representation, democratic governance, and women in politics.
Автор: Coore-Hall Jacqueline A. Название: Feminist Advocacy and Activism in State Institutions: Investigating the Representation of Women`s Issues and Concerns in the Jamaican Legislature ISBN: 3030346811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030346812 Издательство: Springer Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Combining feminist theory with a detailed view of Jamaican Parliamentary procedure and debate, this book will be useful to students and researchers interested in feminist advocacy and activism, minority representation, democratic governance, and women in politics.
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders’ legal right to use violence—which they defined as “punishment”—against those they had held as slaves. Paton argues that, while slave emancipation involved major changes in the organization and representation of punishment, there was no straightforward transition from corporal punishment to the prison or from privately inflicted to state-controlled punishment. Contesting the dichotomous understanding of pre-modern and modern modes of power that currently dominates the historiography of punishment, she offers critical readings of influential theories of power and resistance, including those of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and Ranajit Guha.
No Bond but the Law reveals the longstanding and intimate relationship between state formation and private punishment. The construction of a dense, state-organized system of prisons began not with emancipation but at the peak of slave-based wealth in Jamaica, in the 1780s. Jamaica provided the paradigmatic case for British observers imagining and evaluating the emancipation process. Paton’s analysis moves between imperial processes on the one hand and Jamaican specificities on the other, within a framework comparing developments regarding punishment in Jamaica with those in the U.S. South and elsewhere. Emphasizing the gendered nature of penal policy and practice throughout the emancipation period, Paton is attentive to the ways in which the actions of ordinary Jamaicans and, in particular, of women prisoners, shaped state decisions.
Автор: Cezley Sampson Название: From State to Markets: Journey of the Jamaican Economy ISBN: 9768286873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789768286871 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 57290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this book, From State to Markets: Journey of the Jamaican Economy, the
author has produced a comprehensive and up-to-date work on the development of
Jamaica's modern economy from Independence to the present. This journey of the
Jamaican economy, described in magisterial style by Cezley Sampson, did not
begin in 1962, but had its antecedents in 300 years of British colonial rule,
characterized by a dominant sugar monoculture, monopolistic control of essential
services and industries, dependence on imperial trading preferences and an
underdeveloped Public Service that was neglectful of the rural poor in particular.
Sampson traces the post-independence development of Jamaica's public sector
and public enterprises, in the areas of competition policy, law and institutions and
in the provision of essential services of health, education and water. He outlines in
meticulous detail, the reform processes undertaken by the different political
administrations that have resulted in the creation of executive agencies and the
plethora of regulatory institutions that are today, essential parts of Jamaica's
economic governance landscape.
But the work does more than that; it provides a sweeping history of the country's
economic experience of what the author describes as the 'socialist economic policy
adventure of the 1970s' and its replacement by a take-over of Jamaica's economic
policymaking into a forcible clientelist relationship with the International
Financial Institutions in the period of the 1980s and beyond. However, starting in
the decade of the 1990s, the country was able to gradually free itself from the grip of
the Washington Consensus with their advocacy of supply-side economics and,
through a process of privatisation, begin to transition into the market driven
economy that we know today.
The book tells the story of the privatisation of the Jamaican economy through
case studies of six core sectors of the economy namely Aviation (Air Jamaica and
the two international airports): Agriculture (divestment of sugar-producing
and the privatisation of National Commercial Bank: Electricity sector liberalisation
and regulation; and Public/Private partnership in the Road Sector.
An outstanding feature of this work is the range of reference material the author
has gleaned from published works by the country's leading economists as well as
reports from state agencies Ministry Papers and other official documents,
supplemented by numerous maps, tables, graphs and other statistical material.
Название: No Man`s Land ISBN: 0691160155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691160153 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on a vast array of sources from US, Jamaican, and English archives, as well as interviews, this title tells the history of the American "H2" program, the world`s second oldest guestworker program.
Автор: Maria A. Robinson-Smith Название: Revivalism: Representing an Afro-Jamaican Identity ISBN: 9766406545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789766406547 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Maria A. Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from communities all over Jamaica, engaging in the same practices, is a symbolic homeland where people celebrate their Africanness and sustain the collective memory of Revivalists.Revival iconography is explored through its many modes: visual, sound and movement. Seals, symbols and colour symbolism are presented as a representation of the repertoire of images that make up the Revival iconography. Revival cosmology in the rituals and ceremonies are explored and the spaces created by the seals are treated as liminal ones for the enactment of cultural performances. Smith makes the point that the iconography makes it possible for Revivalists to interpret events and rituals in much the same way across Jamaica. Iconography is the symbolic language and carrier of culture that is central to the practice and production of shared meanings, and this language gives Revivalists a sense of identity. The Revival iconography stores information that makes it possible for Revivalists to reconnect with African metaphysics, thus reclaiming the African self.
Автор: Wilson Leonard Archie Название: A Jamaican Family`s Saga 2 ISBN: 1644265214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644265215 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
A Jamaican Family's Saga 2 is a continuation and climax of A Jamaican Family's Saga, the original work by Leonard Archie Wilson, a fictionalized biography of the life of Althea Ulrica Richardson, his actual mother. The matriarch is portrayed by Ulrica Richards, from her birth to her death. The story resurrects a true incident in the life of Althea. In the 1940s in Jamaica, her youngest brother, Real, was either murdered or accidentally devoured by sharks off the coast of the island. In the fictionalized account, one of her sons and his wife pull off a Macmillan and Wife style investigation to almost solve this seventy-two-year-old mystery.
About the Author
This work is the second and final book in this series about a Jamaican family. It is, however, his third book. The second book, Poof, is in print but is not part of the series. Leonard Archie Wilson started writing late in life. Forty-nine years of his life were spent making and repairing jewelry. Thirty-four of those years in Pennsylvania in his own store.
Автор: Sebba, Mark Название: London Jamaican ISBN: 0582080959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780582080959 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 59190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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