According to Carolyn Cooper in Audio Clash, written in 2004, dancehall new music and its adhering to were being commonly attacked for frequent references to guns and violence in lyrics, with Cooper responding by arguing the emergence of firearms was fewer an indication of truly violent undercurrents in dancehall and a lot more a theatrical adoption… Read More

As dancehall is surely an expression of an area, an area that is developed, as Henri Lefebvre would see it, by Culture and Group (1991), this area deals with the development and negotiation of the dancehall Room, beginning with Louis Chude-Sokei’s “Put up-Nationalist Geographies: Rasta, Ragga and Reinventing Africa” that looks within the shif… Read More