Required Books
Rivera, Raquel Z., Wayne Marshall, and Deborah Pacini-Hernandez. Reggaeton. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780822343837.
Sterling, Marvin D. Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780822347224.
| SES # | READINGS |
|---|---|
| Jamaica | |
| 2 | Bilby, Kenneth. “Jamaica.” In Manuel, Peter. Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae. 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995, pp. 143-182. ISBN: 9781566393393. |
| 3 | Veal, Michael. Introduction and Chapter 1 in Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007, pp. 1-44. ISBN: 9780819565723. |
| 4 | Thomas, Deborah. “Modern Blackness; or, Theoretical ‘Tripping’ on Black Vernacular Culture.” In Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 230-262. ISBN: 9780822334194. |
| 5 |
Chude-Sokei, Louis. “Post-Nationalist Geographies: Rasta, Ragga, and Reinventing Africa.” African Arts 27 (Autumn 1994): 80-84 and 96. Patterson, Orlando. “Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos.” World Policy Journal 11 (Summer 1994): 103-117. |
| United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Jones, Simon. Chapters 2-4 and Conclusion in Black Culture, White Youth: The Reggae Tradition from JA to UK. London, England: Macmillan, 1988. ISBN: 9780333452554. |
| 7 |
Gilroy, Paul. “Between the Blues and the Blues Dance: Some Soundscapes of the Black Atlantic.” In Bull, Michael, and Les Back. The Auditory Culture Reader. New York, NY: Berg Publishers, 2004, pp. 381-395. ISBN: 9781859736180. Sharma, Sanjay. “Noisy Asians or ‘Asian’ Noise?” In Dis-Orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. London, England: Zed Books, 1996, pp. 32-60. ISBN: 9781856494700. Quinn, Steven. “Rumble In The Jungle: The Invisible History of Drum’n’Bass.” Transformations 3 (June 2002): 1-12. (PDF) Liner notes. Watch How The People Dancing - Unity Sounds From The London Dancehall, 1986-1989. Honest Jon’s Records, 2002. |
| United States | |
| 8 |
Kenner, Rob. “Dancehall.” In Light, Alan. The Vibe History of Hip Hop. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 1999, pp. 350-357. ISBN: 9780859652902. Marshall, Wayne. “Follow Me Now: The Zigzagging Zunguzung Meme.” Wayne and Wax, May 10, 2007. ———. “Hearing Hip-Hop’s Jamaican Accent.” Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 34 (2005): 8-9, and 14-15. |
| 9 |
Stephens, Michelle A. “Babylon’s ‘Natural Mystic’: The North American Music Industry, the Legend of Bob Marley, and the Incorporation of Transnationalism.” Cultural Studies 12 (1998): 139–167. Koppel, Niko. “New Roots in the Bronx for a Lion of Reggae.” New York Times, April 12, 2009. Faraone, Chris. “Reggae Revival.” Boston Phoenix, May 21, 2009. |
| Costa Rica | |
| 10 | Putnam, Lara. “‘The Weekly Reggee’: The Greater Caribbean Jazz Age and Youth Dances in Limón, Costa Rica, 1930-1932.” Unpublished/forthcoming. |
| Panama | |
| 11 |
Twickel, Christoph. “Reggae in Panama: Bien Tough,” and “Muévelo (Move It!): From Panama to New York and Back Again, the Story of El General.” Reggaeton, pp. 81-88, 99-108. Nwankwo, Ifeoma C. K. “The Panamanian Origins of Reggae en Español: Seeing History through ‘Los Ojos Café’ of Renato.” Reggaeton, pp. 89-98. |
| Puerto Rico | |
| 12 |
Giovannetti, Jorge L. “Popular Music and Culture in Puerto Rico: Jamaican and Rap Music as Cross-Cultural Symbols.” In Aparicio, Frances R., and Cándida F. Jáquez. Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in the Americas. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002, pp. 81-98. ISBN: 9781403960016. Flores, Juan. “Creolité in the ‘Hood: Diaspora as Source and Challenge.” Centro 16 (Fall 2004): 283-289. (PDF) |
| 13 | Marshall, Wayne. “From Música Negra to Reggaeton Latino: The Cultural Politics of Nation, Migration, and Commercialization.” Reggaeton, pp. 19-76. |
| Cuba | |
| 14 |
Davis, Samuel Furé. “Reggae in Cuba and the Hispanic Caribbean: Fluctuations and Representations of Identities.” Black Music Research Journal 29 (Spring 2009): 25-50. Hansing, Katrin. “Rasta, Race and Revolution: Transnational Connections in Socialist Cuba.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 27 (2001): 733–747. |
| 15 |
Baker, Geoffrey. “The Politics of Dancing: Reggaetón and Rap in Havana, Cuba.” Reggaeton, pp. 165-199. Fairley, Jan. “How To Make Love With Your Clothes On: Dancing Regeton, Gender and Sexuality in Cuba.” Reggaeton, pp. 280-296. |
| Brazil | |
| 16 |
Béhague, Gerard. “Rap, Reggae, Rock, or Samba: The Local and the Global in Brazilian Popular Music (1985-95).” Latin American Music Review 27 (Spring/Summer 2006): 79-90. de Araújo Pinho, Osmundo. “‘Fogo na Babilônia’: Reggae, Black Counterculture, and Globalization in Brazil.” |
| 17 |
Neate, Patrick, and Damian Platt. Chapters 3-4 and 7-8 in Culture Is Our Weapon: Afroreggae in the Favelas of Rio. New York, NY: Penguin, 2006. ISBN: 9781899365692.
Optional Cumming, Andy. “Who Let the Yobs Out?” Stylus, November 21, 2005. (Note: This article is included here as a part of “I’m Ugly But I’m Trendy: A 2005 Baile Funk Snapshot” by Andrew Cumming, Brasilwire, September 24, 2018.) Davis, Mike. “Planet of Slums.” New Left Review 26 (March-April 2004). |
| West, East, and Southern Africa | |
| 18 | Savishinsky, Neil J. “Rastafari in the Promised Land: The Spread of a Jamaican Socioreligious Movement Among the Youth of West Africa.” African Studies Review 37 (December 1994): 19-50. |
| 19 |
Akindes, Simon. “Playing It ‘Loud and Straight’: Reggae, Zouglou, Mapouka, and Youth Insubordination in Côte d’Ivoire.” In Palmberg, Mai, and Annemette Kirkegaard. Playing with Identities in Contemporary Music in Africa. Nordic Africa Institute, 2002, pp. 86-103. ISBN: 9789171064967. McNee, Lisa. “Back From Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of the Diaspora, Youth Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa.” In Young, Richard. Music, Popular Culture, Identities. Amsterdam, Holland: Rodopi, 2002, pp. 213-228. ISBN: 9789042012493. |
| 20 |
Remes, Pieter. “Global Popular Musics and Changing Awareness of Urban Tanzanian Youth.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 31 (1999): 1-26. Gilman, Lisa, and John Fenn. “Dance, Gender, and Popular Music in Malawi: The Case of Rap and Ragga.” Popular Music 25 (2006): 369-381. |
| Japan | |
| 21 | Babylon East, Introduction, Chapters 1, 3, 5, and 6. |
| 22 |
Dreisinger, Baz. “Tokyo After Dark.” Vibe, August 2002. [View on Google Books] Wood, Joe. “The Yellow Negro.” Transition 73 (1997): 40-67. |
| Australia and Bali | |
| 23 | Baulch, Emma. “Reggae Borderzones, Reggae Graveyards.” Chapter 3 in Making Scenes: Reggae, Punk, and Death Metal in 1990s Bali. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 73-90. ISBN: 9780822341154. |
| 24 |
Maxwell, Ian. “Sydney Stylee: Hip-Hop Down Under Comin’ Up.” In Mitchell, Tony. Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002, pp. 259-279. ISBN: 9780819565020. White, Cameron. “Rapper on a Rampage: Theorising the Political Significance of Aboriginal Australian Hip Hop and Reggae.” Transforming Cultures eJournal 4 (April 2009): 108-130. |
