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- Title
'Wine', Women and Song: The More Things Change...
- Authors
Devonish, Hubert
- Abstract
The paper addresses the socially controversial issue of the public expression of sexuality in dance in the Caribbean. Of particular interest is the phenomenon of 'wining' or 'wukkin' up', dancing involving pelvic gyrations. The focus is on changes taking place in societies in which there is supposedly the continued dominance of a male patriarchal figure. Can these changes be anything more than a new form of male control of female sexuality and public sexual expression? It seeks to address this question through an analysis of two songs, one a male performed classic competition winning calypso, 'The Black Man feeling to party' and a competition winning calypso sung by a female entitled 'This is what we do'. The former celebrates heterosexual relationships right from the period of partner dancing courtship, through marriage, child rearing and, with child rearing achieved, a return to partner dancing. The latter exalts and justifies the behaviour of women 'wining' alone or on each other. The paper concludes that women are asserting ownership of their own sexuality through auto-sexual dance expression in public. Things have indeed changed.
- Subjects
CARIBBEAN; CALYPSO music; HUMAN sexuality in dance; DANCE -- Caribbean Area; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; CHILD rearing; COURTSHIP
- Publication
Sexuality & Culture, 2011, Vol 15, Issue 4, p332
- ISSN
1095-5143
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12119-011-9108-z