Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power PDF
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Rude Citizenship This page intentionally left blank Rude Citizenship Jamaican Popu lar Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power LARISA KINGSTON MANN The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill © 2022 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set in Charis by Westchester Publishing Ser vices The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Mann, Larisa Kingston, author. Title: Rude citizenship : Jamaican popular music, copyright, and the reverberations of colonial power / Larisa Kingston Mann. Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2021041590 | isbn 9781469667232 (cloth) | isbn 9781469667249 (paperback) | isbn 9781469667256 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Popular music—Jamaica—History and criticism. | Popular music—Social aspects—Jamaica—History. | Music trade—Jamaica. | Copyright—Music—Jamaica. | Music and race—Jamaica. Classification: lcc ml3486.j3 m36 2022 | ddc 781.63097292—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021041590 Cover photographs: Front, Debbie Bragg, Passa Passa Street Party in Kingston, Jamaica (detail) (Everynight Images / Alamy Stock Photo); back, sound system (crazy82 / Shutterstock.com). To my mother, Dr. Esther Kingston- Mann, a historian of peasants resisting enclosure of land, and my f ather, James Newton Mann Jr., an ethnomusicologist, poet, and composer, I dedicate this work on people resisting the enclosure of music. And to Andrea Lewis, mentor and friend in Jamaica. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowl edgments, xi Introduction, 1 Community Originality and Colonial Copyright 1 Voice of the People, 31 Cultural Survival as a Musical Imperative 2 Every Night It’s Something, 85 Exilic Authority in the Street Dance 3 Counteractions, 138 Musical Conversation against Commodification Conclusion, 171 New Visions from Old Traditions: Autonomy from the Commons Notes, 189 Index, 219 This page intentionally left blank Table 1 “This Is Why I’m Hot (Blackout Remix),” 158
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