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- Title
Moving Dancehall Off the Island: Female Sexuality and Club Culture in Toronto.
- Authors
Flynn, Karen
- Abstract
While there has been an exciting growth in scholarship on dancehall culture, primarily in the fields of cultural and literary studies as they relate to Jamaica, more attention needs to be given to its configuration in other geographical locations and other popular culture arenas. This article explores dancehall culture from a geographic site, in Toronto, which, despite its large Caribbean population, is often a mere footnote in larger diasporic studies. Moving beyond the proclivity of viewing dancehall culture and music from a purely patriarchal misogynistic viewpoint, the article focuses on the redemptive and empowering possibilities that this popular Black expressive form holds. It underscores how dancehall culture and music challenge hegemonic scripts predicated on stereotypes of Black women's sexuality. Despite the contradictions inherent in the music and the performance of female artists such as Lady Saw and Tanya Stephens, dancehall culture evokes women as active agents who are able to articulate their sexual desires.
- Subjects
WOMEN'S sexual behavior; POPULAR culture; DANCEHALL music
- Publication
Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 2014, Issue 8, p265
- ISSN
1995-1108
- Publication type
Article