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This is a richly researched book which promises to attract scholars and students interested in Jamaican politics and community development, dancehall culture, questions of violence and global inequalities, and gender and sexual identity formation. --Oneka LaBennett, author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn

This is a richly researched book which promises to attract scholars and students interested in Jamaican politics and community development, dancehall culture, questions of violence and global inequalities, and gender and sexual identity formation.""- Oneka LaBennett, author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn ""Sounds of the Citizens offers a necessary, ethnographically grounded update to the substantial literature on Jamaican popular music and culture . . . [and] careful, caring context for apprehending the ways dancehall serves as a serious force in the lives of the communities from which it issues."" - Latin American Music Review ""This theoretically sophisticated, well‐researched book is a must read for graduate students, academics, and policy makers interested in Jamaican politics, dancehall culture, community development, globalization, and the long‐term impacts of neoliberalism on postcolonial societies."" - American Ethnologist

This is a richly researched book which promises to attract scholars and students interested in Jamaican politics and community development, dancehall culture, questions of violence and global inequalities, and gender and sexual identity formation. --Oneka LaBennett, author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn

This is a richly researched book which promises to attract scholars and students interested in Jamaican politics and community development, dancehall culture, questions of violence and global inequalities, and gender and sexual identity formation. - Oneka LaBennett, author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn Sounds of the Citizens offers a necessary, ethnographically grounded update to the substantial literature on Jamaican popular music and culture . . . [and] careful, caring context for apprehending the ways dancehall serves as a serious force in the lives of the communities from which it issues. - Latin American Music Review This theoretically sophisticated, well-researched book is a must read for graduate students, academics, and policy makers interested in Jamaican politics, dancehall culture, community development, globalization, and the long-term impacts of neoliberalism on postcolonial societies. - American Ethnologist

"This is a richly researched book which promises to attract scholars and students interested in Jamaican politics and community development, dancehall culture, questions of violence and global inequalities, and gender and sexual identity formation.""- Oneka LaBennett, author of She's Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn ""Sounds of the Citizens offers a necessary, ethnographically grounded update to the substantial literature on Jamaican popular music and culture . . . [and] careful, caring context for apprehending the ways dancehall serves as a serious force in the lives of the communities from which it issues."" - Latin American Music Review ""This theoretically sophisticated, well‐researched book is a must read for graduate students, academics, and policy makers interested in Jamaican politics, dancehall culture, community development, globalization, and the long‐term impacts of neoliberalism on postcolonial societies."" - American Ethnologist"

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Anne M. Galvin is associate professor of anthropology at St. John's University in New York City.

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