On March 8-9, I’ll be participating in a Caribbean Music Seminar at Royal Holloway College (University of London). On the evening of the 8th, I’ll contribute to an open forum on Jamaican music. On the morning of the 9th, I’ll be delivering a paper about Jamaican culture, versioning, and the notion (and uses) of the “foreign.” Here are the details for the seminar on the 9th —<\/p>\n
Music, Text and Politics in the Caribbean and its Diaspora<\/strong> Friday 9 March, 10:30 – 17:30 11 – 11.30 am<\/strong>: Opening remarks (Philip Bohlman, Sharon Meredith, Tina K. Ramnarine, Geoff Baker) <\/p>\n 11.30 am – 1 pm<\/strong>: Session 1: Music and Text (Chair: Peter Patrick)<\/p>\n Elaine Richardson, Hiphop and Dancehall Intertextualities<\/em> 1 – 2 pm<\/strong>: Lunch <\/p>\n 2 – 3.30 pm<\/strong>: Session 2: Performance and Liberatory Politics (Chair: Tina K. Ramnarine) <\/p>\n Conrad James, Music, Poetry and Black Liberatory Politics in Cuba<\/em> 3.30 – 4 pm<\/strong>: Tea\/Coffee <\/p>\n 4 – 5.15 pm<\/strong>: Session 3: Recording Projects and Ethnographic Film (Chair: Bill Schwarz) <\/p>\n John Cowley, Chants, Carnival Bands and Conflict: Territorial Topicality in Recordings of Creole Masquerade Music<\/em> 5.30 – 6.15 pm<\/strong>: Concluding responses and discussion (Chair: Mikael Riley)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 8-9, I’ll be participating in a Caribbean Music Seminar at Royal Holloway College (University of London). On the evening of the 8th, I’ll contribute to an open forum on Jamaican music. On the morning of the 9th, I’ll be delivering a paper about Jamaican culture, versioning, and the notion (and uses) of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1,5,18],"tags":[400,191,128,402,408],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-event","category-uncategorized","category-jamaica","category-reggae","tag-academic","tag-ethno","tag-events","tag-jamaica","tag-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInstitute for the Study of the Americas
\n35 Tavistock Square, Seminar Room 12<\/p>\n
\nVenue: Seminar Room 12, ISA<\/p>\n
\nWayne Marshall, To Turn the Text Upside-Down: Versioning the Foreign in Jamaica<\/em>
\nTimothy Rommen, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Ain’t Askin’ Fa Much\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Rake-n-Scrape as Social Text in the Bahamas<\/em> <\/p>\n
\nLez Henry, What The Deejay Said: A Critique from the Street!<\/em>
\nSheldon Blackman, On Soca\/Sokah: Ras Shorty I and his Legacy<\/em> <\/p>\n
\nCarlo Cubero, Filming Musical Places: The Making of MANGROVE MUSIC<\/em> <\/p>\n