{"product_id":"king-yellowman-meaningful-bodies-in-jamaican-dancehall-culture-9789766408510","title":"King Yellowman: Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamaican 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing Yellowman:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\tix \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \txiii\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction\t1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1. The Life and Times of Yellowman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tAbandoned: The Early Life of Winston “Yellowman” Foster, 1957–1971\t19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tFrom Alpha to Eventide: The Teenage Years, 1971–1976\t30\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tRanking Dundus: Breaking into the Music Business, 1977–1978\t46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tMad over Me: Tastee Talent Competition to Aces International, 1979–1981\t74\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\tRam Jam Master, 1981\t94\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6\tJamaica Proud of Me, 1982\t127\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\tKing Yellowman, 1983–1984\t150\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8\tCan’t Hide from Jah: Encounters with Religion\t178\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9\tSufferation, That’s All I Know: Cancer, 1985\t192\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\tMessage to the World: Prayer and More Slackness\t200\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2. Meaningful Bodies in Jamaican Dancehall Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11\tYellowman, Race, Sex and Masculinity\t225\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12\tYellowman in Reggae Histories and Scholarship\t248\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13\tYellowman, Slackness and Social Critique\t286\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14\tYellowman as Moral Regulator\t296\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15\tYellowman, Sex and Religion\t313\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\t335\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: “Galong Galong Galong”\t339\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: Selected Album Covers\t341\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\t347\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\t357\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\t369\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of the West Indies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51047205273943,"sku":"9789766408510","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789766408510.jpg?v=1750970666","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/king-yellowman-meaningful-bodies-in-jamaican-dancehall-culture-9789766408510","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}