Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power

243 Pages·2022·4.492 MB·English

by  Larisa Kingston Mann

Rude Citizenship
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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
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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.
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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
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Table
1 “This Is Why I’m Hot (Blackout Remix),” 158