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Author:   Adwoa Ntozake Onuora ,  Anna Kasafi Perkins ,  Ajamu Nangwaya
Publisher:   University of the West Indies Press
Imprint:   University of the West Indies Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9789766407957

ISBN 10:   9766407959
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   30 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword: Dancehall Culture Upsetting Delicate Sensibilities vii CAROLYN COOPER Preface: Be Bold for Change: On Violence against Women and Girls ix VIVIENNE ( TANYA STEPHENS) STEPHENSON Acknowledgements xiii Prologue: Rough Riding: Tanya Stephensand the Power of Music to Transform Society 1 ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA, ANNA KASAFI PERKINS AND AJAMU NANGWAYA Part 1: Who Is Tanya? 1 Tanya Stephens as a Black Feminist Organic Intellectual of Dancehall and Reggae 23 AJAMU NANGWAYA 2 The Tenderness of Tanya, Vulnerability of Vivienne: Reassessing Dancehall's Ruff Rider 49 MELVILLE COOKE 3 The Gangsta as Feminist in the Lyrics of Tanya Stephens 64 TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE Part 2: Still #1 with a #2 Pencil : Producing and Disseminating Knowledge 4 The Sound of My Tears : Tanya Stephens and the Meanings of Crying 79 ANNA KASAFI PERKINS 5 Tanya Stephens as Apostle of Critical Literacy 93 ADWOA NTOZAKE ONUORA AND AJAMU NANGWAYA 6 Yuh Cyaan Hangle di Ride : Tanya Stephens's Critique of Societal Inefficiency 113 ELSA CALLIARD-BURTON 7 The Call to Resistance: The Weaponization of Language in the Music of Tanya Stephens 127 NICOLE PLUMMER Part 3: Put It on You : Tanya Stephens's Erotic Playbook 8 A Lyrical Juxtaposition of Tanya Stephens and Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez 155 ALPHA OBIKA 9 Collision of RastafarI and the Erotic in the Work of Tanya Stephens 179 SARA SULIMAN 10 It's a Pity Yuh Already Ave a Wife : The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Tanya Stephens's Civilized Man-Sharing 208 CHAZELLE RHODEN 11 Power and the Construction of the Erotic 221 KAREN CARPENTER Epilogue: A Bunch of Righteous Freaks : Tanya, God, Christians and the Bible 243 ANNA KASAFI PERKINS Appendix 263 Contributors 265

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Adwoa Ntozake Onuora lectures in the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of Anansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies. Anna Kasafi Perkins is Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, Office of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, the University of the West Indies, Vice Chancellery, Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. Her publications include Justice as Equality: Michael Manley's Caribbean Theory of Justice and Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections (co-edited with Donald Chambers and Jacqueline Porter). Ajamu Nangwaya is a former lecturer in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is co-editor (with Michael Truscello) of Why Don't the People Rise Up? Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance and (with Kali Akuno) of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi.

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