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BOOK LAUNCH: “Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall” by Donna P. Hope on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 6pm at the Undercroft, UWI, Mona.
The Institute of Caribbean Studies at the UWI, Mona announces the launch of “Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall” by Donna P. Hope on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 6pm at the Undercroft, UWI, Mona. Mr. Clyde McKenzie will be the main speaker. The public is invited.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In the award-winning book, Man Vibes, Donna P. Hope explores the expressions of Jamaican masculinities within the popular cultural space of the male-dominated dancehall. Employing both a personal, ethnographic and anthropological perspective in auditing the history of dancehall, that is simultaneously a celebration of the marginalized and a challenge to social inequality she delineates a path through the expression of the multifaceted male self that is evident in dancehall. Man Vibes highlights five prominent masculine debates in dancehall - a hyper-heterosexuality that stresses promiscuity and sexual prowess (Ole Dawg), which is also evidenced in the aggression articulated through gun talk/lyrics as exemplified in the Badman or “Shotta’ representations gun/violence (Bad Man), and via the vigorous policing of the hegemonic heterosexual consensus in Jamaica, which condemns male homosexuality through an extreme, graphic and violence-laden discourse (Chi Chi Man). Conspicuous consumption and excessive male posing is another site of male identity (Bling Bling), as well as the noveau presentation of a softened and feminized masculinity evident in the refined aesthetic physicality and the choreographic impulses and colourful and flamboyant styles exhibited by some male artistes and dancers in the dancehall (Fashion Ova Style).
In its uncovering of several key factors involved in the identity formation process of some working class masculinities, Hope’s work in Man Vibes provides a road map for analysts, researchers and policy makers who seek answers to the current challenge of male underdevelopment and marginalization and adds to the growing body of academic and popular debate on Caribbean gender, Caribbean masculinities, Performance, Popular Culture, Dancehall, Music, Culture, Postcolonial Studies and Race.
The Institute of Caribbean Studies at the UWI, Mona announces the launch of “Man Vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall” by Donna P. Hope on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 6pm at the Undercroft, UWI, Mona. Mr. Clyde McKenzie will be the main speaker. The public is invited.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In the award-winning book, Man Vibes, Donna P. Hope explores the expressions of Jamaican masculinities within the popular cultural space of the male-dominated dancehall. Employing both a personal, ethnographic and anthropological perspective in auditing the history of dancehall, that is simultaneously a celebration of the marginalized and a challenge to social inequality she delineates a path through the expression of the multifaceted male self that is evident in dancehall. Man Vibes highlights five prominent masculine debates in dancehall - a hyper-heterosexuality that stresses promiscuity and sexual prowess (Ole Dawg), which is also evidenced in the aggression articulated through gun talk/lyrics as exemplified in the Badman or “Shotta’ representations gun/violence (Bad Man), and via the vigorous policing of the hegemonic heterosexual consensus in Jamaica, which condemns male homosexuality through an extreme, graphic and violence-laden discourse (Chi Chi Man). Conspicuous consumption and excessive male posing is another site of male identity (Bling Bling), as well as the noveau presentation of a softened and feminized masculinity evident in the refined aesthetic physicality and the choreographic impulses and colourful and flamboyant styles exhibited by some male artistes and dancers in the dancehall (Fashion Ova Style).
In its uncovering of several key factors involved in the identity formation process of some working class masculinities, Hope’s work in Man Vibes provides a road map for analysts, researchers and policy makers who seek answers to the current challenge of male underdevelopment and marginalization and adds to the growing body of academic and popular debate on Caribbean gender, Caribbean masculinities, Performance, Popular Culture, Dancehall, Music, Culture, Postcolonial Studies and Race.
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