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Noises in the Blood

Orality, Gender and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture

by Carolyn Cooper

A literary and cultural study by a Jamaican scholar of the oral traditions of Jamaica, from folk song and Louise Bennett's verse to reggae, dub poetry and dancehall. Cooper treats performance in Jamaican speech as a serious form of argument and art.

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